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You asked "what valuable thing has Signal done" and offered to track them, and I responded with two examples. "What if someone threatens a Signal employee" is a
by lvh 8y ago
You asked "what valuable thing has Signal done" and offered to track them, and I responded with two examples. "What if someone threatens a Signal employee" is a moved goalpost. Who else has solved private contact discovery? Conversely: who else has solved Mossad as a threat model? I have repeatedly pointed out the Signal subpoena elsewhere, which is responsive to a number of your comments.
If your threat model includes Mossad, you're going to get Mossaded upon. You say "thinking only Signal can do this is hubris", but in the same breath suggest we're just carefully consideration of a standard away from being safe against Mossad threatening someone's kids. That's hubris.
- lrvick 8y agoI will look closer into private contact discovery across messengers, sorry for rushing over that point. I did try to respond to the sopoena comment in that that is only of limited value. A blackhat will proably have an easier time getting to servers than a lawyer with Signals setup, and I do credit them with providing a substantially better assurances than say Whatsapp... but still not good enough for my particular threat profile. Personally I don't like using permanant non anonymous identifiers like phone numbers so I would not use the feature as they have implemented it, but that doesn't mean it does not have some value for some use cases worh exploring. That is at least something that can be looked at objectivly in the scope of the spreadsheet.