Iran and the U.S. may not agree on much (and may technically be at war with each other right now) but there is, apparently, one thing that officials from both countries seem to be on the same page about: WhatsApp, Meta’s ubiquitous chat app, is a data hazard and not to be trusted. Since Facebook […]
Elon Musk Wants You to Use XChat for Your Next Signalgate
Elon Musk announced on Sunday that starting soon, you will be able to chat with your friends, family, and war collaborators on X, the everything app. Now, you might be thinking, “I could already do that, Twitter has had direct messages since basically forever.” And you would be right. But you see, this is XChat, […]
The Pentagon Sent Out a Warning Against Using Signal Right Before Yemen Group Chat Fiasco
The Pentagon warned against using Signal in a memo just last week, according to NPR. It cited threats from Russian hackers. The memo was delivered department-wide days before The Atlantic published a bombshell revelation that its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been erroneously added to a Signal group chat that involved detailed discussions of planned strikes […]
Chatbots Convinced Idiots They Cracked the Code on a Sculpture in the CIA’s Backyard
Near the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there is a sculpture known as Kryptos. It has been there since 1990 and contains four secret codes—three of which have been solved. The final one has gone 35 years without being decrypted. And, according to a report from Wired, the sculptor responsible wants everyone to know that […]