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Most people only have the NSA as an adversary in the minimal sense that they're caught up in a very broad mass surveillance net. It's true that if you're a whis
by arglebarnacle 10y ago
Most people only have the NSA as an adversary in the minimal sense that they're caught up in a very broad mass surveillance net. It's true that if you're a whistleblower with sensitive government information Signal is not a complete solution for you. But who cares? Almost nobody is in that situation, and people in that situation have access to other tools that actually do help.
Your last sentence is extremely unfair to Signal and dramatically underrates the privacy it provides to ordinary people. It's dangerous to suggest that because it requires a phone number and lives on an app store it provides no useful protection at all, because that implies it's no better than e.g. WhatsApp when in fact it has a much better featureset.
- pdkl95 10y ago> Almost nobody is in that situation Almost everybody might be in that situation, because the NSA is not the only group that has access to the data they collect. They call it "parallel construction", where the NSA's "customers" like the DEA simply have to fill out a form[1] to get surveillance data, and promise to lie about the source in court. [1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140203/11143926078/parallel-construction-revealed-how-dea-is-trained-to-launder-classified-surveillance-info.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140203/11143926078/paral...
- antocv 10y agoLOL, its not better than WhatsApp, that is my point. In fact, its worse than cleartext SMS, when you use Signal you are a target, when you use cleartext SMS, you can still hide among the noise.