We're going streaking through the quad!

Ah yes, make shop owners confront their customers over masks...again. How well did that play out last time?

>used to

Seems to be how pretty much all of these services worked at one point. The halcyon days of early social media.

This is supposed to be a mandatory requirement for all VoIP providers thanks to the FCC's STIR/SHAKEN policy of 2019. Remains to be seen how effective the policy will actually be in practice.

>If the government wanted your browsing history and internet activity, they wouldn't really have to go through publishers and data providers.

Sure, but they technically need warrants for official data requests. But why bother with warrants when they have been known to simply buy personal data as a 4th Amendment loophole.

The article points out that it's unknown how the feds accessed the messages while noting the possibility someone who was party to the group may have provided direct access. This seems the most likely explaination given the circumstances and absent any credible evidence of actual compromise to the protocol. An accomplice looking for a lighter sentence (...or one who is simply incompetent) will almost always be the weaker link in secure communications.

"I was so busy chasing everyone else's dreams I forgot to chase my own."

Turning them off is the easy part...