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A photo taken this week showed Mike Waltz using an app that looks like—but is not—Signal to communicate with top officials. "I don't even know where to start with this," says one expert. www.wired.com/story/mike-w...

“It's mind blowing that the federal government is using Israeli tech to route extremely sensitive data for archival purposes... Even if TeleMessage isn't willingly giving it up, they have just become one of the biggest nation state targets out there," Jake Williams, a former NSA hacker tells WIRED.

TeleMessage was founded in Israel in 1999 by former IDF technologists and run out of the country until it was acquired last year by a US company. The service creates duplicates of communication apps that are outfitted with a “mobile archiver” tool to record and store messages sent through the app.