Senior national security officials have used personal devices and autodeleting messaging apps such as Signal to text about highly sensitive national security matters, including plans to launch a military strike in Yemen. This reckless use threatens national security by putting classified or other sensitive information into un-secure channels, susceptible to hacking or spyware. It also increases the risk of these officials inadvertently sending this information to the wrong recipients, as they did when then-National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a Signal group chat. In addition to these national security threats, using autodeleting message apps may violate federal records law and undermines the public's right to a transparent and accountable government.