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I'm sorry to be the party pooper here, but... Signal was intercepted: http://heavy.com/tech/2017/03/wikileaks-vault-7-cia-bypasses-signal-telegram-whatsapp-vu

I'm sorry to be the party pooper here, but... Signal was intercepted: http://heavy.com/tech/2017/03/wikileaks-vault-7-cia-bypasses-signal-telegram-whatsapp-vulnerable-insecure-hacked-encrypted-apps-update/ http://heavy.com/tech/2017/03/wikileaks-vault-7-cia-bypasses... My favorite most depressing take on this by Peter Gutmann - "Crypto won't save you either" http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/05/16/0955_peter_gutmann.pdf http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/05/16/0955_peter_gutmann.pdf

spaceribs 9y ago
The OS was hacked, big distinction there. Also, they would have to actively target your phone for surveillance. I'm much more concerned about the passive interception aspect, and I don't for a second believe that I'm preventing myself from being surveilled. The fact that they should have to go out of their way to break the 4th amendment is important to me.
nannal 9y ago
The thing about endpoint-to-endpoint security is that it really sucks if one of your endpoints is compromised. The "Signal" was not broken & the encryption worked, the part that didn't was when the encryption was removed and the user presented with plain text.