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Next step, Chinese intelligence hacks their database of verified phone numbers. Anonymity over. Having the resources of a nation state, they could probably do i
by aussieguy1234 7y ago
Next step, Chinese intelligence hacks their database of verified phone numbers. Anonymity over. Having the resources of a nation state, they could probably do it easily.
- pishpash 7y agoOr join as a malicious node. There is no panacea without control over some infrastructure.
- Ar-Curunir 7y agoFor something as low latency as messaging, you can probably use proof of work for DoS resistance
- newnewpdro 7y agoBecause messaging software that drains batteries is what everyone wants...
- m-p-3 7y agoIt's better than the alternative, which is no messaging.
- newnewpdro 7y agoPoW or no messaging seems to me like an obviously false dichotomy.
- henearkr 7y agoIf they were doing E2E encryption, that would not be a problem. Broadcasting to find the right recipient (the one with the decrypting key) but contents protected from everybody else.
- lclarkmichalek 7y agoOk so how would key distribution work here? Tofu?
- henearkr 7y agoIf you can meet once physically, there is nothing better than that to exchange your public keys. That's why hackers meetings are "public keys signing parties".
- m-p-3 7y agoYou can skip the verification, but it's not obvious how to (dark pattern).
- dsteinman 7y agoIf you skip verification but the people you communicate with do not, then all of you are at risk of being publicly identified.
- slim 7y agochinese intelligence has already intercepted all sms coming from the app and has all the users phone numbers