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Another hit piece on signal? Damn they must be doing something right.
GrapheneOS is being attacked too, by the French government and law enforcement in particular.
Funny coincidence: .ml is a French instance.
EDIT: just to be clear, I DO think it’s a coincidence, especially since other posts in this community are pro-graphene and pro-signal.
Does Delta Chat / Arcane Chat suffer from the same vulnerability?
https://arcanechat.me https://delta.chat/en/
From https://delta.chat/en/help#sealedsender
Thanks, that is very clear
Someone dug out a 2 year old article.
At the blinding speed of technology development in today’s timeline, I rarely go back more than a couple years. It’s usually stale and outdated even just 2 years ago.
I saw this in hackernews bro😣
So? Its still a two-year-old outdated article.
It was on the trending page of hackernews so I thought it would be relevant. But ok I get your point
Wasn’t Signal only able to disclose first and last timestamps when a user has connected to their servers when receiving legal requests? I just assumed their protocol made it so that they can’t do it, or they theoretically can but don’t store such logs.
I don’t really get it,
I mean, no, all they know is that they ALL users get one way mail all the time?
The “over time” in “but, over time, they would know that…” does a lot of heavy lifting. Would they? How would they know that?
Sure, if there were only two participants in the system, I would agree. But we have way more than 2 users on signal.
Someone logging timestamps for messages received on both ends of a conversation would be able to determine that two people are probably talking to each other given enough data. Signal is probably not doing that, but Signal’s other security guarantees provided by an open source client that encrypts communications end to end hold even if the organization was infiltrated or taken over by a bad actor. The anonymity of participants in a conversation is not protected as strongly as the contents of messages.
Steadily growing userbase, 70m active users last year. At any time of the day, seems like timestamps will only show what time each user is usually awake.
Thankfully i don’t have this problem, almost all of my contacts use only proprietary messengers instead of this shady Signal.
None of my friends use Signal, so I’m in four group chats where I’m the only member (Journalists from The Atlantic notwithstanding). One is for transferring files between devices, one is for notes, one is for reminders, and one is for frequent backups of things like my browser bookmarks.
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I’ve got my bookmarks synced, it’s just I want to be able to recover them if they’re tampered with by malware.
I switch just a week ago to simplex chat
Too bad its creator seems to like Trump https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/114630877715286899
I prefer deltachat https://delta.chat/
If the tech works as it should, that’s what I care about the most.
Ty, will have a look at it , most people here in europ are trump haters.
Most people in the US are as well but many of them don’t vote and the system is rigged in favor of Republicans.
Have fun talking to yourself.
Have enough with my contact in address book, that’s all I need