A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15
www.politico.com/news/2025/03... Mastodon: Pernille Tranberg / @pernillet@mastodon.online : Good for Signal — Signal is experiencing massive downloads after the Atlantic was let into a group of high-ranking officials in the Trump administration..... https://techcrunch.com/... Laffy / @GottaLaff@mstdn.social : Via Kyle Cheney: — NEW: On Tuesday, as the #SignalGate scandal raged, DOGE employees were given a new “records retention policy” reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete. It was revealed in a lawsuit challenging the DOGE initiative's recordkeeping practices. … X: Scott MacFarlane / @macfarlanenews : ALERT: After 30 minute hearing here in DC, Judge James Boasberg orders Trump national security team to preserve all Signal communications between March 11 and March 15. @shipwreckedcrew : And he explicitly distinguished “preservation” from “recover” — i.e., messages that may have already auto-deleted. Said that is a different issue and may not be subject to a private cause of action. Brian Krassenstein / @krassenstein : BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg has JUST ORDERED ALL Agencies taking part in the Yemen Signal chat to ‘preserve all Signal records from March 11 to 15’. Thank you Again Judiciary! Margot Cleveland / @profmjcleveland : 6/ Judge: Will government accept order to preserve chats for that. DOJ: We are working to preserve records we have. We are still in process of seeing what we have. We don't think an order is necessary? Judge: But then an order isn't prejudicing agency. Judge: Don't worry this @matthew_d_green : Ok, look people: Signal as a *protocol* is excellent. As a service it's excellent. But as an application running on your phone, it's... an application running on your consumer-grade phone. The targeted attacks people use on those devices are well known. [image] Forums: Hacker News : White House to DOGE employees: Preserve your Signal records r/news : Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Signal chat on Yemen strikes r/neoliberal : Judge orders preservation of Signal group chat on Houthi strike r/politics : Judge Says He Will Order Government to Preserve Signal Messages About Houthi Military Strike r/moderatepolitics : Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Signal chat on Yemen strikes r/inthenews : Judge orders preservation of Signal group chat on Houthi strike r/politics : Signal chat records must be preserved, federal judge tells Trump administration
The White House, reeling from the revelation that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared sensitive military attack plans with colleagues on a private messaging app, sent some new instructions this week to DOGE staffers: Preserve your Signal messages. — www.politico.com/news/2025…
Good for Signal — Signal is experiencing massive downloads after the Atlantic was let into a group of high-ranking officials in the Trump administration..... https://techcrunch.com/...
ALERT: After 30 minute hearing here in DC, Judge James Boasberg orders Trump national security team to preserve all Signal communications between March 11 and March 15.
And he explicitly distinguished “preservation” from “recover” — i.e., messages that may have already auto-deleted. Said that is a different issue and may not be subject to a private cause of action.
BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg has JUST ORDERED ALL Agencies taking part in the Yemen Signal chat to ‘preserve all Signal records from March 11 to 15’. Thank you Again Judiciary!
6/ Judge: Will government accept order to preserve chats for that. DOJ: We are working to preserve records we have. We are still in process of seeing what we have. We don't think an order is necessary? Judge: But then an order isn't prejudicing agency. Judge: Don't worry this
Ok, look people: Signal as a *protocol* is excellent. As a service it's excellent. But as an application running on your phone, it's... an application running on your consumer-grade phone. The targeted attacks people use on those devices are well known. [image]