SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Advisers Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App
Summary
This phrase “TM SGNL” was oddly different than normal on Waltz’s phone, which quickly led people to a software vendor called TeleMessage that is based in Israel, first reported in detail by 404Media. Additionally, Unicorn Riot found that at least one access pattern must have been implemented through the WordPress Gravity Forms plugin, which is a very unusual design choice for a set of company programs with such sensitive devices to track. The server domain name archive.telemessage.com, which sends out emails shown in the official video above, is currently linked to three IP addresses inside Amazon Web Services network AS14618 in northern Virginia, according to public records. The WordPress Puzzle: This Seems Absurd “It’s mind-blowing that the federal government is using Israeli tech to route extremely sensitive data for archival purposes,” was how former National Security Hacker “Malware Jake” Williams described this situation to Wired, but the vendor’s design decisions uncovered above are even more baffling. MalwareJake said to Wired, “Even if TeleMessage isn’t willingly giving it up, they have just become one of the biggest nation-state targets out there.” Since the 1994 rollout of the Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), there have been other controversies with Israeli contractors in the federal telecom wiretapping space.
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