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TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool
I've spent the last week or two writing code to make sense of the massive hack of data from TeleMessage, the comically insecure company that makes a modified Signal app that Trump's former national security advisor Mike Waltz was caught using. I've decided to publish my code as open source
Back in 2020, in the middle of the Black Lives Matter uprising, someone hacked hundreds of law enforcement websites and exfiltrated about 270 GB of data. If you want to dig into secret 2020-era docs from your local police intelligence agency yourself, I recommend reading my book (which is available for free online, though I'd appreciate if you buy a copy), and particularly these chapters: Finally, the "cruncher" part of the code will read all of the heap dump strings files, search for relevant JSON objects, and insert them into the database.
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