It looks like this was in partnership with NASA, (and Canada, and Japan) and went up on a Falcon. The payload is easier to move (like, not on its own) than the rocket.
Also, looks like ESA just got their own European launch site...in northern Norway, which doesn't have as many benefits for equatorial launch.

I am under the impression there's a Russian saying that is basically "you don't get shit from my asshole". Not sure why that comes to mind.

Because that's how you get antibiotic resistant bacteria.

I read the bit about how they split it so the instructions are separated and unlikely to both be copied to another cell, but if there are multiple ways to get to the beneficial part of the process, it seems like this will increase the odds that it happens.

I think that assumes he knew the phones were backdoored and/or he was actively working with law enforcement. If not, the normal charges would stand.

Also hard to butt dial when the keyboard is covered.

How many people had an account set up at the time noted for account creation in Signal's response? Would publishing that information as they did constitute notifying the subject of the investigation?
It was interesting to read the form request and complete response, but I worry there was information leaked.

Given the number of possibilities at the range of "hamster investor", the pile does seem to have some breadth.

From the opening line, "Space Force Guardians, as they're known, fly the nation's missile warning satellites", which are in geosynch. How much delta-v do they have? Are they allowed to change their orbits, or do they have to keep the same target area centered? My guess is, as far as delta-v, not a lot (gotta preserve some for graveyard orbit), and re orbit changes, not without permission from way up (barring emergency). So can they be said to "fly" the satellites, or are they watching the results and waiting for something to be flagged?

"Industrial grade" encryption (surprised they didn't go with 'military grade'), what're the odds they're using it with ECC?
From the last linked article, "players found wearing a receiver while batting will be ejected" which sure gives me a lot of confidence.

From Troy Hunt's twitter, a subset of it is on GitHub, portions may be included in Have I Been Pwnd

There are slime molds with what I remember as dozens, and which a search indicates hundreds, of sexes. Greater than 2 genders can be more than imagined. Seems helpful when the mobility is limited.

And there are a fair number of organisms that can reproduce asexually, from bacteria to fish and reptiles. Single cell organisms at least are able to adapt pretty quickly this way, despite being almost copies of the predecessor. I was tempted to make an oblique reference to Jurassic Park, but that was changing sex in a single sex environment.

I do think that generally the binary gives a stability and diversity, but Nature doesn't stop there.

If the vulnerability noted in the post exists, Signal can (hopefully) close it and slam the gates.

Reading through the archived post, the following is doing a lot of heavy lifting 'The “data” field contains an encrypted json file, that once decrypted, contains the decryption keys of the sent attachments.' ; in the other cases, they were calling out where the information was found in the system, so I'm wondering how that worked.

Lastly, the tone of the author was leaning towards "these fools posted their source code!?" and hopes that encryption backdoors are mandated in the near, which reminded me of comic book villains monologues to remind readers who the bad guy is.

Not a lawyer, but if this argument was presented, I'm coming over the table. You purchased the connections as you viewed them as beneficial. You did not purchase only the beneficial parts of those connections. These are different things.

I'm just going to refer to it as Tres Comas in the event it comes up in conversation.

When I saw the headline, I figured I'd stumbled into "This Day In Slashdot".
Such is not the case. Here's to hoping their efforts fail.