@jetcitystar A couple of months ago, I had the very surreal experience of serving as a juror on a murder trial. It was a great experience, and I learned a lot.
@Kent_in_Utah @hledoux74 @KayeSteinsapir@selectedwisdom Content is almost certainly logged on hardened, highly-restricted in-house archival servers (at least for USSS-specific secure messaging apps), and they probably have a nearly-unlimited retention schedule.
@roecats_8 @hledoux74 @KayeSteinsapir@selectedwisdom “Double-ended encryption”? LOL. Do you even know how encryption works? TLS only protects data in flight, not stored content. Former IT security pro here (with crypto ops and forensic experience).
@EssReed @hledoux74 @KayeSteinsapir@selectedwisdom Not to mention internal retention rules, regulations, and policies. I guarantee that every text sent on a USSS device since about 2007 is backed up and readily accessible somewhere (to duly authorized custodians). Secure, validated storage is cheap.
@clearing_fog@selectedwisdom Carriers can produce metadata logs (e.g., caller/sender, recipient, length of call, etc.), but not content (i.e., actual conversations or text exchanges), at least where modern, encrypted messaging applications are concerned.