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TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool
micahflee.com
It’s truly wild that something like this exists. It really speaks to the unfathomable levels of incompetence that this is what the Trump administration was using to plan military operations over.
(it won't help when the organization is beached, which unfortunately still seems to be the main way that user data gets leaked)
Ultimately, though, until there starts to be federal law mandating chain of custody for user data and harsh penalties on it being leaked, I think that this will continue for a long time...
Update: I should have read the article - did not realize TeleMessage was supposed to be E2E. I guess now the lesson is that you shouldn't be using normal devices for national security information (classified or not), and otherwise it's still not good to use a sketchy service that doesn't have Moxie-grade crypto implementations.
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I'm hoping that this will be yet another shot in the war to convice corporations and government agencies that they need to have on-prem data hosting that isn't accessible to the company running the service. I don't think you can do full E2E between individual employees in a corporate setting, but at the very least if all of the organization's data is only accessible to the organization, that'll help with a lot of the…
This is exactly the state of affairs the government prefers.
Privacy and consumer protection long died on the altar of turnkey totalitarian universal monitoring.
By having corps do the creepiest data collection, whatever all political opposition to the complete surveillance state is bypassed
I'm hoping that this will be yet another shot in the war to convice corporations and government agencies that they need to have on-prem data hosting that isn't accessible to the company running the service. I don't think you can do full E2E between individual employees in a corporate setting, but at the very least if all of the organization's data is only accessible to the organization, that'll help with a lot of the…
If a company knows something about you, so does the government(s). This is exactly the state of affairs the government prefers. Privacy and consumer protection long died on the altar of turnkey totalitarian universal monitoring. By having corps do the creepiest data collection, whatever all political opposition to the complete surveillance state is bypassed