{"id":917262,"date":"2025-03-27T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=917262"},"modified":"2025-03-27T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:19:18","slug":"what-is-signal-the-chat-app-used-by-us-officials-to-share-attack-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/27\/what-is-signal-the-chat-app-used-by-us-officials-to-share-attack-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Signal, the chat app used by US officials to share attack plans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magazine journalist\u2019s account of being added to a group chat of US national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg detailed a discussion that happened over the Signal messaging app hours before strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen ordered by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The National Security Council has since said the text chain \u201cappears to be authentic\u201d and that it is looking into how a journalist\u2019s number was added to the chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magazine journalist\u2019s account of being added to a group chat of US national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled. Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg detailed a discussion that happened over the Signal messaging app hours before strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen ordered by US President Donald Trump. The National Security Council has since said the text chain \u201cappears to be authentic\u201d and that it is looking into how a journalist\u2019s number was added to the chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}