[sumeno]

It was not built by the government and it's not some secret software, it's off the shelf software by an Israeli company.

[_heimdall]

I didn't catch this in the article here. Is that well known elsewhere?

[sumeno]

> But the message is slightly different: it asks Waltz to verify his “TM SGNL PIN.” This is not the message that is displayed on an official version of Signal.

> Instead TM SGNL appears to refer to a piece of software from a company called TeleMessage which makes clones of popular messaging apps but adds an archiving capability to each of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMessage

[UnreachableCode]

Acquired by a US company, Smarsh, according to other comments