Not surprisingly, this turns out to have a totally benign explanation. Still, I do think this demonstrates how hard it is for (apparently) well-meaning, somewh

Not surprisingly, this turns out to have a totally benign explanation. Still, I do think this demonstrates how hard it is for (apparently) well-meaning, somewhat-technical users to understand what their software does. I don’t think reading over firewall logs is a very good way to ensure trust in client-side software, of course. (Aside from just being ridiculously time-consuming, there are too many easy ways to exfiltrate data. Like…sending it to the Signal servers?) But I do sort of idly wonder, given the ever-increasing complexity of the trusted computing base, how we can make it so users who are (apparently) concerned enough to read over firewall logs can more productively evaluate trust.