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"I don't think all of this security is an accident,"

Jan. 17, 2018 by James Ashley

"I don't think all of this security is an accident," Wallace told Fox News. "It's the product of two people at the same time." Wallace says he started working on the app on his laptop as an employee at the National Security Agency, which he calls "the National Security Council." Now Wallace says he'll be working on it as well for the rest of his lives. "I was one of the first people to learn it, and I was pretty impressed," he told Fox News.

The site's security researcher, Jason Hickey, was one of the first to discover safety flaws in Safe's architecture. (Photo: Scott Wallace)

The site's security researcher, a former contractor at the NSA, was also hired by the company and paid a salary of $1 million, according to a recent Fortune article.

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Wallace's story has been shared more than 2.7 million times on Twitter and 2.4 million times on Reddit. (The site's creator, James Bamford, has used the site to share posts about his work on the security flaws.)

In a series of tweets and in a blog post, Wallace claimed he had been contacted by an unnamed security firm who had discovered security flaws in his Safe application.

"As you know, we were contacted by the company and were informed that this was not our application," he wrote. "We immediately contacted another company, who were able to confirm it and get back to us immediately. The company immediately informed us that, in their opinion, our Safe application is not secure, and we should take steps to mitigate any threat, including from malicious software, to our users. We received no response at this time from them."

Scott Wallace found security flaws in the Safe app

Safe's security flaws are the reason the TSA found flaws in its first-ever security vulnerability.

Scott Wallace finds security flaws in the Safe app. (Photo: Scott Wallace)

Scott Wallace found security flaws in the Safe application. (Photo: Scott Wallace)

A security researcher with the National Security Agency has uncovered how Secure could be a security hole. (Photo: Scott Wallace)