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The Signal clone the Trump admin uses was hacked

by CrankyBear on 5/4/25, 10:34 PM with 19 comments

  • by afavour on 5/4/25, 11:36 PM

    Surely the most significant tech news story of the day and it’s immediately flagged off HN.

  • by croemer on 5/5/25, 9:03 AM

    See this for a non-flagged discussion on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875476

  • by neonate on 5/5/25, 4:50 PM

  • by toofy on 5/5/25, 2:14 AM

    it is a bit troubling to me how this and stories covering the same group of people are so often quickly flagged.

    i saw this story on other sites and immediately thought: hacker news will be the best place to follow along with this only to see it flagged dead. it does seem like this seems to be happening quite a lot when a certain group of people and their competence levels are being covered.

    thanks for not burying this particular instance.

  • by tomhow on 5/5/25, 11:04 AM

    All: the main reason for not giving this story front page exposure is that there is already an article about this app that's been on the front page all day:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875476

    And that article contains a link to the 404media.co story, reporting the hack, and other commentary about the security of the app.

    And there are several mentions in that discussion thread about the 404media.co story, and I've pinned another link to the top of that thread.

    If we had a separate thread it would split the discussion and we always avoid doing that; it makes more sense to keep it all in one thread, as it really is one topic.

    It should also be noted the article specifically states:

    “The hacker has not obtained the messages of cabinet members, Waltz, and people he spoke to . . .”, so it’s not actually a breach of administration communication that it first seems to be from the headline.

  • by cadamsdotcom on 5/5/25, 12:28 AM

    Thanks everyone who has chosen NOT to flag this. It is emphatically in the public interest for this to be known.

  • by zhengiszen on 5/5/25, 6:54 PM

    Between this scandal and the previous secretary of state Hillary Cliton hosting her own private email server for official public communications... it reeks of both impunity and incompetence...