What is Signal and can it be hacked? The chat app Trump team used to share ‘Yemen war plans’

What is Signal and can it be hacked? The chat app Trump team used to share ‘Yemen war plans’

US senators gathered to grill President Donald Trump’s top intelligence officers about their discussion of extremely confidential Houthi war plans on a commercial messaging chat that also featured a journalist. The bombshell disclosure infuriated national security experts and Democrats, raising questions about how classified information is supposed to be handled. Signal has encryption enabled by…

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Gabbard pledges to ‘aggressively pursue’ leaks from US intelligence agencies

(Reuters) – U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has pledged to crack down on people within the intelligence community who leak information to journalists. Gabbard, who oversees 18 spy agencies, said she would be “aggressively pursuing recent leakers” in order to hold them accountable for unauthorized disclosures. “Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security…

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