Australian home affairs secretary admits to using disappearing messages on Signal for work

The department of home affairs secretary, Stephanie Foster, has admitted to using disappearing messages on Signal, but says she complies with record-keeping obligations, as officials face scrutiny of their use of encrypted messaging apps in the wake of the Trump administration group chat scandal. The editor of the Atlantic, Jeff Goldberg, published a story this week saying he was accidentally added to a Signal group chat of top US officials discussing operational details on a plan to strike Yemen. Signal is known for its privacy and disappearing-message features. A US government watchdog group is suing US officials, arguing that using

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