If you did just paste that, looks like the Verge corrected it since! I wonder if they were using a competitor’s AI to generate the article, or if it was just the good old typo+autocorrect method?

It reads like “definitely should not happen” was indeed happening!

I wonder if some techs got a basic unencrypted test working, then a pointy haired boss moved them on to another project and it got deployed into use with no-one setting up the encryption.

You literally wrote that they don’t represent you, so what else could I reasonably infer (not assume) from that? I bet you’d be more offended if I assumed you were lying in everything you wrote… but great thanks to you for petitioning them. It’s up to us all to make our representatives care.

Sorry, that’s not how representative democracy works. You should tell them that, not us, and why.

What’s the current best summary of that with evidence for the UK? Is it still the one in Gear Change?

Reform aka Russia were something like 5th. Nowhere near 2nd. But the 2nd-placed centre right party appears to be collapsing and most media seems obsessed with flattering the Russians’ leader and not reporting Nathan Gill or Nadia Sass, so now they lead the opinion polls despite their local government leaders descending into farce.