Was it @Wisconcom@infosec.pub and @HoxhaistLib@lemmy.world?

Had clearance, on lemmygrad, still not traitor. Try harder.

Well just the same it's as likely that:

1. His handler was a double-agent or US operative fishing them the whole time.
2. He confessed to it after a slip-up or under suspicion after being questioned.
3. They found out at some point, got malware sent to his phone, decypted the messages that way.
4. Some combination of these.

While it certainly is possible that the US has compromised and/or is running top e2e encrypted messengers and I wouldn't use them myself for anything that's considered a serious threat to national security, it's also just as likely they may have for example used metadata inference via the big brother NSA global intercept program (which actually is a number of programs) to say "hey this US military IP address sure is sending regular messages to this IP address we've inferred (which itself is the real breach here in China's operations if true) to belong to Chinese intelligence via this encrypted messenger" at which point they don't have to know message content to know something is up, deploy the malware/and|or seize the device physically and there ya go.

US going around shitting and crying itself over Chinese "societal surveillance" that they fear will and has historically allowed them to shut down American spy networks in China do the same thing but globally and not just nationally and unlike China have no protections against misuse, share the data with between 1 (UK), 7, 14, or 21 countries (eyes agreements), and oh yeah practice rendition, torture, and assassination without trial.

The boots they so fanatically lick will likely one day be the same boot that kicks their lifeless bodies into a ditch

Hey, if you’re extremely lucky you may become a token for a bit like Candace Owens.

Have you ever watched "Midnight Mass" on Netflix? There's a Muslim sheriff in the small US town, and he talks about the same thing.

In USA even the curb polishers are called "troopers", that country just have overwhelming military fetish.

Mistake in writing the title, I was tired enough to not notice it

Not long until what?

They haven’t defederated us yet, so we still show up on their all page.

Some of them are doing it just to get banned by us, which I don’t really understand…