Signalgate Reveals Crypto’s Privacy Problem
Posted March 29, 2025 at 9:00 am EST.
Every once in a while privacy issues come to the forefront of the news cycle.
It happened again this week when news broke that senior government officials, including Vice President JD Vance, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, along with about a dozen others including one national journalist, were included in a private chat on the encrypted Signal messaging application that was used to share detailed attack plans against a terrorist group in Yemen.
Questions are swirling around Washington, D.C. trying to figure out why such sensitive data was shared on a free commercial application. After all, the…
