How secure is Signal? Cyber experts weigh in on Trump administration’s use of the encrypted app for war planning

Signal users also aren’t able to tell which contacts have accounts linked to their desktop, so the risk can’t be adequately evaluated, Williams added.

Signal did not respond to a request for comment. In the app’s Terms of Service, it states that users “are responsible for keeping your device and your Signal account safe and secure.”

Top Democrats on the Hill were quick to bash the use of a Signal group chat to discuss sensitive military activities, particularly without properly vetting who was added to the group.

“It should go without saying that administration officials should not be using Signal for discussing intelligence matters reserved for the situation room — not to mention doing so incompetently by including members of the public,” said House Homeland Security ranking member Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who has oversight of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) called on Chair Brian Mast (R-Fla.) to hold a hearing on what Meeks described as “the most astonishing breach of our national security in recent history.”

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