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TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs

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Re: TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs

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Post by proactivesvcs »

I'd find it useful if I could access my Signal chat logs in plaintext. The software offers no facility to do this on any platform, and on Desktop the programs that have allowed me to take proper backups are (by necessity) a moving target because of changes to the database, so I am constantly having to get around to updating them and occasionally even that's a pain.

Re: TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs

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dang wrote: post #3

Recent and related: Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875476 - May 2025 (313 comments)

Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865103

Re: TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs

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Post by XorNot »

proactivesvcs wrote: post #5

I'd find it useful if I could access my Signal chat logs in plaintext. The software offers no facility to do this on any platform, and on Desktop the programs that have allowed me to take proper backups are (by necessity) a moving target because of changes to the database, so I am constantly having to get around to updating them and occasionally even that's a pain.

It'd also be useful if backups on Android actually streamed somewhere off the phone so they could be meaningfully appended to, kept. Or handled per channel (i.e. my baby pictures channel with family).
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