This trove of messages is likely to become a boon for historians, a new source of concern for privacy advocates, and, depending on the details, a point of embarrassment or pride for the government agencies and corporations whose internal conversations have been divulged.

Questo misterioso tesoro di messaggi diventerà probabilmente una manna dal cielo per gli storici, una nuova fonte di lamentele per i sostenitori della privacy e, in base ai dettagli, un punto di imbarazzo o di orgoglio per le agenzie governative e le corporazioni le cui conversazioni interne sono state divulgate.

Whatever their origin, the logs are likely to raise more questions than they answer.

A prescindere dalla loro origine, è probabile che i log sollevino più domande di quante riescano a rispondere.

What's unclear is what the impact of the release of the 9/11 data will be. Nothing immediately apparent in the 573,000-or-so lines of text suggests a rethinking of how we view the events of that day (although conspiracy fanciers are sure to highlight excerpts such as the message suggesting "military planes" forced down a commercial jet, and one saying there was an "explosion and fire at Pentagon").

This should be a lesson to anyone who would prefer their personal details not go on public display: Without end-to-end encryption, and perhaps even with it, your correspondence is vulnerable to interception and publication. And if you're the Secret Service responding to threats against the president, or FEMA organizing an evacuation to an underground bunker, why are you letting anyone with a $10 pager and a Windows laptop watch what you're doing?