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The"Houthi PC Small Group" group chat included Pete Hegseth , the secretary of defense , Marco Rubio, the secretary of state , and Vice President JD Vance — and, accidentally, a journalist, according to a new explosive report in The Atlantic.
But in this case, the privacy was compromised from people within the group chat. It’s a harsh reminder: Your group chat’s security is only as strong as the trust you have in your group participants. Signal, for example, does not notify the other person when you take a screenshot of a disappearing message, which makes it easy for someone like Goldberg to keep track of what was being said.
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