Several agencies have moved swiftly to ensure their communications meet those legal standards for government records preservation, and a little-known tech provider has been getting significant attention.
Offices in the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security are querying Whiterock Technologies to help them preserve records of chats conducted over encrypted messaging apps used on work devices, fueled by a lawsuit filed last week and a subsequent judicial order that directed messages from the infamous Signal chat to be preserved, according to people familiar with the discussions.
In the past week, some two dozen conversations with the company were facilitated by staff across those agencies which included legal counsel, chiefs of staff and chief information officers, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid about the scope and scale of the government’s interest in the company’s archiving service.
Judge James Boasberg ruled Thursday that all relevant agencies involved in the Signal discussion should preserve the contents of the chat from March 11 to March 15 — the timeframe from when the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to the group chat to when the bombings against the Iran-backed Houthis commenced. Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, among others, were present in the encryp ..
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