SignalGate And Spring Break - And Cleaning...

Trying to take a 10-day break but got sucked back into the vortex...

"Have you ever had somebody’s contact that shows their name and then you have somebody else’s number there?… Of course I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else." https://thespectator.com/topic/mike-waltz-takes-full-responsibility-groupchat-leak-laura-ingraham/

There may be a way to do this - from Signal server source code:

"Enable creating a fake unauthenticated chat connection"

* Creates a chat connection backed by a fake remote end.
*
* @param asyncContext the async runtime to use
* @param listener the listener to send events to
* @returns an {@link UnauthenticatedChatConnection} and handle for the remote
* end of the fake connection.
*/
public static fakeConnect(
asyncContext: TokioAsyncContext,
listener: ChatServiceListener
): [UnauthenticatedChatConnection, Wrapper<Native.FakeChatRemoteEnd>] {
const nativeChatListener = makeNativeChatListener(asyncContext, listener);

const fakeChat = newNativeHandle(
Native.TESTING_FakeChatConnection_Create(
asyncContext,
new WeakListenerWrapper(nativeChatListener),
''
Source at: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal/commit/c08602eebe3c3cf3e325313a2f88c858981ce0a6

Another possibility which does not require any hacking, is this: I spoke with a friend who is familiar with Signal, and it turns out that you can change your screen name to anything you want - your phone number stays the same. So Waltz or his staffer accepts Goldberg into the group, thinking that it's someone who is legit - and he or his staffer doesn't check the phone number... So Goldberg spoofed Waltz - if this is the case - and after Goldberg is done with the chat, he can just change his name back to his real name - and he has plausible deniability. Waltz said at one point that one of the people in the group chat didn't receive any of the messages in the chat - and this would confirm the spoofing. And that means that Signal as it stands now is *very* insecure - for anyone who needs to maintain confidentiality - there needs to be some sort of code put in to stop this kind of spoofing.

Just thinking about it a bit more, and an easy means of prevention comes to mind: Create a whitelist of screen names and phone numbers - a dictionary in Python or the equivalent in Rust would do the trick - the screen names would be the keys and the phone numbers would be the values. So you input a screen name and phone number, you pull up the corresponding screen name and number from the dictionary, and compare the numbers. If the numbers match, then it's a go, if not, the number is excluded from the group chat, and then you could do a "whitepages" search on the number and find out who it really belongs to - and take appropriate action. Of course, there's the problem of "call forwarding" or the number could be hijacked in some other way - and you might be able to add code to deal with this, but otherwise, this should fix the spoofing problem. Signal is open source, so a fork could be done, and it's just using Xcode to create the iOS and desktop apps.

It looks like the addition of Jeffrey Goldberg was neither knowing nor intentional on Mike Waltz’s part - apparently he added a member who was supposed to be in on the chat - but never got any postings, because they went to Goldberg instead. And this suggests some fairly sophisticated hacking by Goldberg or someone working for him - or someone in the Blob doing a “favor” for Goldberg, who is all in on Stopping Trump.

But Goldberg today really put his foot in it:

By today disclosing (Goldberg 26 March Atlantic article) obviously classified material which he got inadvertently or by what seems more and more likely, by subterfuge on his part, someone working for him, or someone using him on their own behalf, Goldberg violated the Espionage Act in the same way that Julian Assange violated it, when he published classified material given him by Bradley Manning. We have this in law practice in discovery - opposing counsel will from time to time send over too much material or work product prejudicial to their case. Your ethical duty is to stop reading the material, destroy it by an effective means, and notify opposing counsel. As soon as Goldberg was invited to a group in which sensitive matters and classified info would be present, he should have turned down the request. Now, with his public disclosure of the material he knows to be classified, he should be prosecuted under the Espionage Act, just like Assange.

This kind of trickery should be expected from those of whom Sen. Chuck Schumer said: “They can mess with you six ways to Sunday.” The “intelligence community” as an alternate and unconstitutional branch of government needs to be abolished forthwith - ripped into a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds. If there’s any real threat to national security, they’re it.

PS - a video to watch about that rogue branch -

OK, enough for this nonsense, back to work…