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An accidental group text leak of U.S. war plans exposed more than just military secrets. It underscored the dangerous shortcomings of consumer messaging apps in government operations, and why encryption alone isn’t enough without proper identity, access control, and oversight.

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The recent incident involving the inadvertent inclusion of a journalist into a Signal group chat where US officials discussed sensitive military operations highlights the complexities governments face when using consumer messaging applications for official communications. Historically, various government administrations have used commercial messaging apps for official purposes. For example, Boris Johnson’s administration, and Macron’s team before France chose to standardise on Element.

The Trump administration’s spectacular security breach, in which it seemingly shared details of a planned military strike in Yemen with a journalist, highlights just what can go wrong if you use consumer messaging apps to run your government. It’s beyond all reasonable logic that any government would use a consumer messaging app for even the most mundane chat. That it’s commonly used by the highest echelons of government on the most sensitive of topics is simply mind-boggling.