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TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US government officials, has been hacked (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Well I am just shocked, SHOCKED I say!...well....not that shocked

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Classic Goverment / Army. Taking a perfectly thing and finding tge absolute worst version of it to use.

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Isn't that a byproduct/effect of capitalism? You could say the same thing about Walmart.

Classic ~~Goverment / Army.~~ Walmart. Taking a perfectly thing and finding the absolute worst supplier that will make it for the bottom of the barrel lowest price.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol... How much the contractor got paid for this slop tho

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

A couple hundred thousand at least, plus setup, on boarding and monthly maintenance fees if I could take a guess.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

The hack revealed that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modded version of Signal that TeleMessage offers and the ultimate location where it stores the messages

lol wasn't that supposed to be the whole point, what are they even doing

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Morans.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

What was the point if modifying it though? Is the stock version, or even molly not good enough? Is there something not as good with those versions that they really needed a modified version?