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You are assuming that Android reports on every step you take. Do you have sources backing this claim?
by exo762 10y ago
You are assuming that Android reports on every step you take. Do you have sources backing this claim?
- jhasse 10y agoIt's nearly impossible to find out. But if I trust corporations like Google not to exploit the possibilities, I wouldn't be looking for an open-source alternative to WhatsApp in the first place.
- exo762 10y agoSignal is not positioned as a tool for possible TAO targets. Never was, and never will be. Don't use it and please stop spreading the FUD.
- jhasse 10y agoWhat exactly is a TAO target?
- type0 10y agoterrible acronym obviously
- Kimm0n0 10y agoTailored Access Operations from the NSA
- ethbro 10y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations Aka NSA's "we really need to get access to this device and will fund diverting backbone traffic / writing firmware malware / whatever else we need to in order to get it" team(s).
- kuschku 10y ago> Signal is not positioned as a tool for possible TAO targets. Never was, and never will be. Eh, that’s exactly what it is currently advertised as. A tool, supported by Snowden, to be used by journalists who are at risk of being under active surveillance by state actors. That is the very definition of a TAO target.
- jospoortvliet 10y agoYou shouldn't use a smartphone if you expect to be TAO. Even the hardware could be compromised. Use a laptop with Linux for anything anyone might want to track...
- kuschku 10y agoThen why is Moxie advertising with Snowden the Signal app as communication for TAO targets? And for non-TAO targets, WhatsApp is just as good as Signal – the users won’t read the source code anyway, and in both cases President Trump gets your social graph.
- curried_haskell 10y agoGoogle has root on your phone. Even if they aren't "for now", good security sense says that we should assume that are.
- fnordfnordfnord 10y agoIt did formerly via Carrier IQ, which was widely reported in the press. So that's not unprecedented.