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

Post by deepsun » Fri, May 16, 2025, 11:54 PM UTC

FireBeyond wrote: post #87

deepsun wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And Email protocol backbone itself was not designed to be secure. It's worse than internet packets over HTTPS -- the secure connection is established between client and server, so man-in-the-middle cannot decrypt it. In email, connections are only secure between relays, so any relay can decrypt read your email. You cannot guarantee what relays are used. Similar to SMS.

This might have been the case back in the day - in the 90s, young me would get a kick out of seeing just how many SMTP servers my email passed through. But now, email communication is "essentially" point-to-point, and relays in use are configured/whitelisted. My SMTP server will pull up your MX and talk directly to it. It might be your Exchange server, a Google server, or a third-party scanner that then sends on to y…