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An activism app storing your government name, location and phone number sounds like an op.

Austin previously gained notoriety for his involvement in online activism and his prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 842(p), a federal law against distributing explosive information with the intent to commit violent crime.

Known fedposter.

What do you mean it was a honeypot??

names and phone numbers?

Is this the same platform that wasn't open source, and also only on the iOS app store?

E: Actually, it looks like this might be different. Still very careless to have exposed peoples names, phone numbers and GPS locations, why was that information even required?

E2: Thinking about this, what are the requirements really? A group chat already provides a host of useful functions (as illustrated by MN organizers). The one thing you would want that a chat app can't provide is plate tracking. One could imagine a federated plate tracking database being built with activity pub being useful but probably technical overkill.

Is this the ICE tracker app that allows you to track ICE in real time?!

The fact that passwords were leaked must mean they were stored in plaintext, which is fucking security 101 shit. This Sherman Austin dude is either an op, or so profoundly and dangerously incompetent that any other activists should treat him as radioactive and not even trust him to fold zines, much less run a fucking database.

Damn, I actually recommended this site for some people. At least I viewed the website without an account.