This comes up as a harmful link on my iPhone, the actual SSL cert does not match archive.ph.

the amount of high level government communications being done over public apps and social networks is alarming

even more when you consider highly classified information is sharing the phone with many of those third party apps

This attack works all the time, look at the "grandma I need $1k to be bailed out of jail" scam.

The people in government used to mostly be serious people that took security seriously. It's possible and will likely work because officials are using apps line signal to try and hide the illegal things they are doing.

There overlap between people who sound like Marco Rubio and want to commit espionage is probably small. That is no longer a barrier.

When I was in elementary school the police came and fingerprinted us all... you know, for education about the police system or some crap like that. I imagine in the future they'll come and take moulds of your kids vocal chords.

or nothing changes, like with Social Security numbers being inherently insecure and used for reasons outside of their use case, and we just live with that

One can dream. Photoshop didn’t inspire a global photo authenticity verification system.

that already exists, it's called "don't have important conversations on your personal mobile phone, the US government spends tens of billions of years on communications security for this exact reason."

Imagine the decrease in social media volume if users could filter by "real human only, USA."