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x.com🚨 KIM DOTCOM: “SIGNAL IS NOT SECURE — ALL THE TOOLS ARE BEING WATCHED”
This is a disturbing warning from Kim Dotcom in his interview with Tucker Carlson.
Carlson asks a simple question: are any of the communications apps millions of people rely upon — Signal, WhatsApp,
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No proof = scaremongering
Yes, Signal is not perfect, but I have no reason to believe that they are in any way compromised.
That’s what open source and encryption are for
Open source and encryption don’t mean 0 days don’t exist.
Having some familiarity with Signal, I have very few ideas on even theoretically how it would be “compromised”.
Edit: and if this were a very different thread on the right instance, I’d be interested in swapping around ideas. But not here
The common claim is the simple fact that it’s hosted on AWS infrastructure. Of course no one has any evidence for that either.
https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115445701583902092
The Signal client uses AES, so this is no reason to stop using Signal. But it’s still true that Signal is hosted on AWS.