The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copies of the messages obtained by 404 Media show.

The person accidentally added to the group chat, which appears to contain six people, said they had no idea why they had received these messages, and shared screenshots of the chat with 404 Media. 404 Media granted the person anonymity to protect them from retaliation.

One of six will not be hard to find… I mean, what?

  • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.socialEnglish
    127·
    9 days ago

    And it wasn’t even Signal, an actually encrypted platform this time.

    It was SMS & MMS. As in, the known to be very low security, non-encrypted protocols used for basic texting.

      • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        124·
        8 days ago

        Yeah my android phone(and my coworkers iPhones) would like a word with you. Because they absolutely do use group chat names now, and one person changing it can affect everyone in the group. Ask me how I know. Maybe it’s not “MMS protocol”, but you’re literally nitpicking over the name they reported, so fair game.

        The default is to just list everyone in the chat, but that in itself is literally used as “the group name”.