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To me Signal is in the business of collecting metadata and nothing else (for whom, that is a good question: probably some three letter agency).
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
To me Signal is in the business of collecting metadata and nothing else (for whom, that is a good question: probably some three letter agency).
- egberts1 3y agoPerhaps you need a refresher in Signal Protocol. Do not be sprouting on about things that you do not understand. https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf
- fsflover 3y agoThe parent is right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414322
- growse 3y agoNo, they're not. It's a pretty long stretch from IP traffic analysis to "who's talking to whom".
- fsflover 3y agoNot for Amazon I would guess. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=39445791#39445866 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...
- growse 3y ago> Not for Amazon I would guess If you're worried about Signal's hosting provider seeing your device's IP address, use a proxy. Personally, I'm not, because there's no trivial way to go from "Here's some IP traffic" to "this human had a conversation with this human". > See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457... I also hand BitWarden all my passwords. Therefore, the government has them, right?
- fsflover 3y agoMy link literally describes viable attacks to deanonymize users. (But it's broken somehow: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=39445791#39445866 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457... )
- egberts1 3y agoCourt requires "what was said" for evidence as in old telcom CALEA, whereas Signal via sealed sender basically guarantees the "Spirit of CALEA".