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minnix to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 10 months ago

Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

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minnix to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 10 months ago
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Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
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On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/0QgXq

  • @ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1•10 months ago

    No matter how good the protocol or client encryption, your privacy is only as good as your own physical security for the device in question.

    Given that if you lose your private key, there is no recovery, I would be surprised if there were real back doors in the clients. Maybe unintentional ways to leak data, but you can go look for yourself: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

    They have one for each client.

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      0•10 months ago

      Maybe unintentional ways to leak data,

      Yeah, that’s what I think it may be. Just like Apple reporting on all apps you open on un-encrypted HTTP calls and a few other things.

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        0•10 months ago

        are you talking about phone notification bullshit and google got caught reporting to government with no warrants.

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          1•10 months ago

          Not only that, https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

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