https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/signal-messages-disappear.html

Government and other institutions using message deletion in signal to subvert FOIA requests and Presidential records act.

#TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more
#signal

I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial findings, details about an upcoming open source research tool I'm going to release, and a huge list of potential TeleMessage customers.

I found a WhatsApp group called "MPD Command Staff" with 46 users in it. There are many messages in this group, but they're all encrypted. (As I described in my earlier analysis, some of the individual messages are encrypted.) I looked up some of the phone numbers from this group on OSINT Industries and quickly discovered that these people all work for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC.

I also found a message sent to a Signal group called "US / China AI Race." The Signal group had 100 people in it. I looked some of them up: many of the group members hold prominent positions at major universities, the defense industry, and the military, and all seem to do AI-related work. The message says, "The biggest crime was USG ignored these fabs for two years." That's it. The dataset doesn't include any other messages from this Signal group.

That said, here's what I've found:
60,012 messages.
36,388 of the messages are plaintext, and 23,624 are encrypted.
1,079 of the message include full attachments (like images, videos, PDFs, contact files, etc.) that are actually part of the dataset. But of those, only 50 of messages are in plaintext. I can, however, actually open and view those plaintext attachments.
Most messages have a subject field that's something like, "WhatsApp message from X to Y." Based on these subjects:
37,753 are WhatsApp messages.
2,549 are Telegram messages.
455 are SMS messages.
141 are Signal messages.
95 are something called "App Messages."
26 are MMS messages.
26 are WeChat messages.
16 are voice calls logs.
11,254 are missing subject fields.
3,501 group chats, the vast majority of which are WhatsApp.
At least 2,034 are WhatsApp groups.
At least 578 are SMS groups.
At least 256 are Telegram groups.
At least 26 are Signal groups.
At least 10 are WeChat groups.
I'm not sure about the other ~600 groups, though it's possible to determine by manually looking at the messages associated with them.
There are also plenty of individual messages that are clearly part of a group chat, but that didn't include JSON metadata related to it, so they're not categorized as groups, even though they are.
44,503 users. These are either senders or recipients of messages.
At least 25,792 of them use phone numbers as the identifier.
At least 31 of them use email addresses, and at least 391 look like they use usernames.
I'm not sure about another 18,289 of them, but I think most of them are also phone numbers.
17,377 of them include first and/or last names, too.

https://micahflee.com/telemessage-customers-include-dc-police-andreesen-horowitz-jp-morgan-and-hundreds-more/

https://micahflee.com/telemessage-explorer-a-new-open-source-research-tool/

Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives; "I Pray No One Dies"

1. La Liga (Spanish #football mafia) finds pirates streaming their games objectionable

2. They notice that many of these streamers use #Cloudflare for something, presumably #CDN and load balancing.

3. They appear in court in #Spain and get an ex-parte TRO blocking all Cloudflare IPs. (Ex parte TRO: restraining order granted without Cloudflare being summoned to court)

4. Based on this, they tell ISPs to block pretty much all of Cloudflare in Spain.

5. Cloudflare goes public in frustration, noting that they could just send take down requests for infringing content like every other rights holder in the world, and that many Spanish utilities and civil resources use Cloudflare.

Interesting. My gut is that it’s hard to beat La Liga on their home turf, as evidenced by not even being invited to the court hearings which shut you down across all of Spain.

Long term, I’d guess CF wins this one? Probably they will have to escalate in some way to Eurozone courts, although I have no idea how this might work. No cloud business could meet the standard put forward by La Liga; but also there are only so many CDN companies. Meantime I guess illegal streamers can move to Google and see which legal group wins that battle.

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-ceo-football-piracy-blocks-will-claim-lives-i-pray-no-one-dies-250526/

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❗️Ten Italian jurists issue formal warning to government over Israeli military and defense cooperation

10 jurists urged the Italian government last week to withdraw from the Memorandum of Understanding on military and defense cooperation with Israel, which is due for automatic renewal on 8 June for another five years. They also warned of potential legal action if the government does not act.

The jurists argue that the memorandum constitutes a "blatant, deliberate, systematic, and intersectional violation of general international law, treaty-based international law, and humanitarian law."

Originally signed in Paris on 16 June, 2003, the agreement was made “between the Government of the Italian Republic and the Government of the State of Israel on cooperation in the military and defense sectors." However, the jurists' warning notes that the memorandum has remained "shrouded in military secrecy" since its signing.

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Vulnerabilities found in NASA's open source adware

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/05/27/nasa-open-source-software-vulnerabilities/

Ukraine and Israel — A United Force? | UKColumn
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/ukraine-and-israel-a-united-force

Widow of slain Saudi journalist can’t pursue surveillance claims against Israeli spyware firm  | Courthouse News Service

A Fourth Circuit appeal panel dismissed on Wednesday claims by the widow of journalist Jamal Khashoggi that an Israeli spy firm's technology allowed Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to illegally track her communications in the lead-up to her husband's political assassination.

Though Hanan Elatr Khashoogi, an Egyptian citizen in Virginia, claimed Israel-based NSO Group Technologies used its Pegasus software to illegally track her phone on Saudi Arabia's behalf, the three-judge panel ruled that Hanan had not adequately shown that NSO Group, as opposed to the Saudi or Emirati governments, conducted surveillance of her devices

#Pegasus #NSO #KSA vs #Kashoogi

X Money is Elon Musk’s move to turn X into an “everything app,” offering peer-to-peer payments, bank integration, a digital wallet, and built-in support for content creators all within the X platform.— Article

Rubio, Cuba & the Zionist Model – https://a.devs.today/https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/26/rubio-cuba-the-zionist-model/

Via @CIJ_Consortium_News
#Cuba #USEmpire #Zionism

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