• @[email protected]
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    I guess I’ll look for some guys on the street to invite them to trash my place and then sue my landlord for providing an defective door… 🤣

  • @[email protected]
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    Pentagon-wide advisory sent to staffers on March 18 — less than a week before the screwup went public — explicitly warned against using Signal for any sharing of information, classified or not.

    The advisory claimed that a “vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application,” and that Russian hacking groups were “targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest” (a Signal spokesperson told NPR that the company wasn’t “aware of any vulnerabilities or supposed ones that we haven’t addressed publicly.”)

    https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-issued-warning-signal-messaging

  • edric
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    Sigh, they’re gonna go after encrypted messaging next.

  • @[email protected]
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    That didn’t happen.

    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

    And if it is, that’s not my fault. <- You are here

    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

    And if I did, you deserved it.

    • TooManyFoods
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      You fool he’s playing two of these steps at once. Both step 4 and step 1. Still claiming it was a “witch hunt” while also making it not his fault. 100 quadtrabillion IQ (a very object way to measure intellect) move you liberal/LEFTIST/sjw wokie. Check mate, and GOOOOOOOOAAALLL. Hahahaha.

      I’m so sorry.

    • @[email protected]
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      This is a reasonable reply to a nonsense statement. Signal is plenty secure for us and whatever we need to do with it. It is not secure enough, nor authorized, for classified information.

        • @[email protected]
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          120 days ago

          No, but it still isn’t secure enough for classified information. The protocol is probably fine, but the weak point is the device. And the device can be compromised. Devices rated for classified systems never touch the public internet which makes them significantly less susceptible to being compromised.

    • Atelopus-zeteki
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      The defect he’s searching for is a back door. Not gonna happen. Everyone, please use and support Signal, says the guy who has been getting people on Signal since Snowden rec’d it in 2015 (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/edward-snowden-favorite-security-tools,30507.html). I had to look it up.

      The other tools in this recommendation: Tor OTR TAILS Qubes OS

      I’ll leave it to others to comment on the viability of the rest, and Signal has gotten an enormous ‘signal boost’ from Signalgate, so I’ll count that as a win.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’ve used QubesOS, Tails and Tor all extensively and they are all incredible. based on what I’ve seen, it’s best not to use Tor on its own unless you’re entirely sure of how you plan to use it - reason being that misconfiguring it can deanonymize you, so it’s best to stick with Tails for sensitive Tor activities and the Tor Browser for less sensitive stuff - Tails forces the whole system to interface with the internet via the Tor network so you don’t leak network traffic onto the clearnet when you’re doing silly business.

        also a little shout out to Orbot which is a Tor router app for Android that will allow you to connect your whole phone over the Tor network (or just a single app). This is huge especially if you’re being censored in another country and want to use Signal or another app that doesn’t support Tor already.

        happy routing :D

  • @[email protected]
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    I didn’t wanna sound like a conspiracy theorist, but as soon as the news dropped last week about this, I did have the thought, “Maybe this is all a stunt to try and get Signal banned.”