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> They can't mandate a backdoor for something other parts of the government rely on to be secure. This is a strong assumption.. A government is a collection of
by kelipso 2y ago
> They can't mandate a backdoor for something other parts of the government rely on to be secure.
This is a strong assumption..
A government is a collection of people. While there might not exactly be warring factions in the US government, there are certainly numerous agencies and organizations that operate under varying degrees of independence.
- walterbell 2y agoNews reports would be much clearer if each faction had a medieval crest, logo, or even UUID.
- Yoric 2y agoGive them a NFT.
- _the_inflator 2y agoEven more sinister is the false hope bias. The Signal app can be used as a honeypot to plant a pseudo-secure messenger, a sophisticated device around a backdoor, or even a trojan-like capability. The Tor network was deemed the culprit of anonymity and secure connections not long ago. We all know how it went.
- jerheinze 2y ago> The Signal app can be used as a honeypot to plant a pseudo-secure messenger Given its open source nature that would be exceedingly difficult. > The Tor network was deemed the culprit of anonymity and secure connections not long ago. We all know how it went. What are you talking about? Tor is still the uncontested king of low-latency anonymity networks.
- arccy 2y agois it really open source when you have to use the binary builds from signal through the app stores? it could be like the xz attack: clean source, bad binaries.
- jerheinze 2y agoThis has been a solved problem since 2016: https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/ https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/