Mon. 05/05 – Why Clone A Messaging App?
Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough
4.7 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The whole Telegram use by government officials story gets weirder as a Telegram clone has been hacked. Apple is thinking about REALLY shaking up its iPhone release schedule. Who put AI in my crypto? Deepfakes are being chased from the Internet. And the maker of Cursor closes its big round.
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Links:
- TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US govt. officials, has been hacked (TechCrunch)
- Apple Plans iPhone Release Schedule Shakeup, New Styles (The Information)
- Tether CEO says the firm's AI product will enable peer-to-peer network of AI agents (The Block)
- Senate Democrats' reversal on US stablecoin bill throws future of legislation into doubt (The Block)
- Leading deepfake porn site is shut down for good (Engadget)
- Maker of AI ‘vibe coding’ app Cursor hits $9bn valuation (Financial Times)
- Reports: US losing edge in AI talent pool (Semafor)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TechMean Right Home for Cinco de Mayo 2025. I'm Brian McCalla today. The whole |
| 0:09.6 | telegram use by government officials story gets weirder as a telegram clone has been hacked. Apple is |
| 0:16.8 | thinking about really shaking things up with its iPhone release schedule. |
| 0:22.4 | Who put AI in my crypto? |
| 0:24.5 | Deepfakes are being chased from the internet, |
| 0:27.3 | and the maker of cursor closes its big round. |
| 0:29.4 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:36.8 | TeleMessage, a maker of modified versions of apps like Signal, |
| 0:38.8 | telegram, and WhatsApp has apparently been hacked, leaking some user messages, contact info, and more. |
| 0:43.3 | Now, until recently, I'm not sure this would have been a story we would have done, as I'd |
| 0:47.8 | never heard of TeleMessage, except that now, quoting TechCrunch, telemessage came into the spotlight last week after it was reported that former U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Walts was using TeleMessage's modified version of signal. |
| 1:02.6 | Israel-based telemessage owned by Smarsh offers its clients a way to archive messages, including voice notes from encrypted apps. |
| 1:12.5 | The messages of cabinet members and waltz were not compromised, 404 media said, but the hacked data contained contents of messages. |
| 1:18.5 | Contact information of government officials, backend login credentials for telemessage, and more. |
| 1:23.9 | Data pertaining to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, crypto exchange, Coinbase, and financial service providers like |
| 1:29.8 | Scotia Bank were extracted by the hacker, the report said. |
| 1:34.1 | The hack revealed that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted |
| 1:37.8 | between the modded version of signal that telemessage offers and the ultimate location |
| 1:42.0 | where it stores the messages 404 media reported. |
| 1:45.2 | Smarch, Signal, U.S. Customs, and Border Protection, Coinbase, and Scotia Bank did not immediately |
| 1:50.1 | return requests for comment, end quote. And quoting 404 media, the hack shows that an app gathering |
| 1:56.8 | messages of the highest ranking officials in the government. Waltz's chats on the app include |
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