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@GossiTheDog
In case you missed it in the actual article:

"The hacker was able to access data that the app captured intermittently for debugging purposes, and would not have been able to capture every single message or piece of data that passes through TeleMessage’s service."

That is, this was only debug data, not actual logged messages. As far as I understand, the actual logs are encrypted with a password - although that probably doesn't amount to much, since the password seems to be hard-coded in the app.

Also, you have to pick one:

- Trump's government is bad because they use Signal's disappearing messages to avoid scrutiny

or

- Trump's government is bad because they complied with a judge's order to log Signal messages.

You can't criticize them for both simultaneously and still have any credibility that your reasoning isn't obscured by your politics.

Oh, and Telemessage was procured by the Biden administration - it is not a Trump thing. They just used it to comply with the judge's order.