👀 Waltz, SecDef SignalGate | Hegseth copies wife, lawyer on second Signal thread

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. -> https://www.wsj.com/politics/nation...aa?st=YQNAKo&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

 

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Signal Clone Used by Mike Waltz Pauses Service After Reports It Got Hacked

The communications app TeleMessage, which was spotted on former US national security adviser Mike Waltz's phone, has suspended “all services” as it investigates reports of at least one breach.

www.wired.com

The messaging app used by at least one top Trump administration official has suspended its services following reports of hackers stealing data from the app. Smarsh, TeleMessage’s parent company, says it is now investigating the incident.

“TeleMessage is investigating a potential security incident. Upon detection, we acted quickly to contain it and engaged an external cybersecurity firm to support our investigation,” a Smarsh spokesperson told WIRED in a statement. “Out of an abundance of caution, all TeleMessage services have been temporarily suspended. All other Smarsh products and services remain fully operational.”

 

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Customs and Border Protection Confirms Its Use of Hacked Signal Clone TeleMessage

After a hacker reportedly stole data from TeleMessage Signal that included references to CBP, the agency has now confirmed that it used the app but has now “disabled” it as a “precautionary measure.”

www.wired.com

The United States Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed on Wednesday that it uses at least one communication app made by the service TeleMessage, which creates clones of popular apps like Signal and WhatsApp with the addition of an archiving mechanism for compliance with records-retention rules.

“Following the detection of a cyber incident, CBP immediately disabled TeleMessage as a precautionary measure,” CBP spokesperson Rhonda Lawson tells WIRED. “The investigation into the scope of the breach is ongoing.”

 

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If I'm Pete, my response to this article would be, " If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?

A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying. According to the experts, each passage violated Princeton’s...

www.dailyprincetonian.com

 

[StrangePackage]

If I'm Pete, my response to this article would be, " If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?

A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying. According to the experts, each passage violated Princeton’s...

www.dailyprincetonian.com

This is of zero concern. Absolutely zero.

There's so much wrong with this asshole, this moves the needle not at all.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

This is of zero concern. Absolutely zero.

There's so much wrong with this asshole, this moves the needle not at all.

Yeah, we're way, way beyond plagiarism mattering in an assessment of these right-wing Neanderthals at this point. Having said that, though, is there any doubt that if a Democratic pol was caught doing this that it would be a major scandal and right-wing and legacy media would run it as their top story for days on end, and it would likely destroy that Democrat's political career? The media and political double standard we now have for Republicans and Democrats is beyond ridiculous.

 

[StrangePackage]

Yeah, we're way, way beyond plagiarism mattering in an assessment of these right-wing Neanderthals at this point. Having said that, though, is there any doubt that if a Democratic pol was caught doing this that it would be a major scandal and right-wing and legacy media would run it as their top story for days on end, and it would likely destroy that Democrat's political career? The media and political double standard we now have for Republicans and Democrats is beyond ridiculous.

It is absolutely ridiculous but it's also an unfortunate reality, until the legacy media stops treating Republican intransigence and hypocrisy as an immutable characteristic of the political landscape... And they may never do that.