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How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes

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How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days ago

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The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.

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Not to mention TeleMessage violated the terms of the GPL. Signal is under gpl and I can’t find TeleMessage’s code anywhere.

Edit: it appears it is online somewhere just not in a github repo or anything

https://micahflee.com/heres-the-source-code-for-the-unofficial-signal-app-used-by-trump-officials/

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