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This blog post is from March. They later figured out what happened and it’s more mundane: Waltz accidentally saved the reporter’s email to his iPhone contacts b
by skybrian 2y ago
This blog post is from March. They later figured out what happened and it’s more mundane: Waltz accidentally saved the reporter’s email to his iPhone contacts because his iPhone suggested it after an email was forwarded to him. [1]
That’s a vulnerability all right, but not a security bug in Signal itself. Having every employee manage their own contacts is bad for an organization’s security.
Maybe Signal having UI to distinguish between organization members and outsiders might help make it more suitable for work use? It might require OS support, though.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group...
- vlovich123 2y agoSignal has no concept of organization. It’s not a tool for corporate use which is why the government developed its own secure chat application precisely for this reason that had this feature