This morning, Distributed Denial of Secrets published 410 GB of data hacked from TeleMessage, the Israeli firm that makes modified versions of Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat that centrally archive messages. Because the data is sensitive and full of PII, DDoSecrets is only sharing it with journalists and researchers.
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Of course it’s Israeli.
So someone makes a state-of-the-art, pretty directly optimized by one criterion only, means of textual encrypted communication. To avoid MITM and various attacks, ya knaw how it goes, and centralized because users are dumb and will sometimes shoot themselves in the leg.
Where else would you expect to originate a company making a voluntary MITM addon for that, for those who didn’t get that Signal was even trying to prevent them from shooting themselves in the leg.
But leaks are good. Someone leak Putin’s family and their acquaintances in EU leadership and European royalty and such, please.