{"id":37239,"date":"2025-03-28T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/what-is-signal-the-messaging-app-at-the-heart-of-a-us-security-leak\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:14:54","slug":"what-is-signal-the-messaging-app-at-the-heart-of-a-us-security-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/what-is-signal-the-messaging-app-at-the-heart-of-a-us-security-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Signal, the messaging app at the heart of a US security leak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We take a closer look at the app used by top officials to discuss a Yemen bombing mission despite it not being approved for such purposes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/28\/donald-trump-white-house-washington-latest-live-us-politics-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added to a group chat of the most senior politicians in the United States discussing a bombing mission in Yemen, one of the questions to arise was why they were using Signal, which is not approved by the US government for sharing such sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/signal-group-chat-leak\">Signalgate<\/a> having dominated a turbulent week in US politics, here is everything you need to know about the app at the centre of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/28\/what-is-signal-the-messaging-app-at-the-heart-of-a-us-security-leak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take a closer look at the app used by top officials to discuss a Yemen bombing mission despite it not being approved for such purposes US politics live \u2013 latest updates When the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added to a group chat of the most senior politicians in the United States &#8230; <a title=\"What is Signal, the messaging app at the heart of a US security leak?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/what-is-signal-the-messaging-app-at-the-heart-of-a-us-security-leak\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is Signal, the messaging app at the heart of a US security leak?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}