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>Moxie Marlinspike sounds like some 90s intelligence guy’s understanding of what an appealing name to hacker groups would sound like. Put a guy like that as so-
by fasterik 9mo ago
>Moxie Marlinspike sounds like some 90s intelligence guy’s understanding of what an appealing name to hacker groups would sound like. Put a guy like that as so-called creator of some encryption protocol for messaging and promote the app like it’s for secret conversations and you think people won’t be suspicious? It screams honeypot like nothing else.
This criticism has absolutely zero substance and honestly just reads like paranoid rambling. The Signal protocol has been independently formally analyzed [1] and has no known security issues.
[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013 https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013
- fsflover 9mo agoIt's not about the protocol but other sides of the design. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555810
- fasterik 9mo agoThe example you linked is about push notifications in general, nothing specific to the Signal app. If the concern is that your OS is compromised or spying on you, that's not something E2E encryption can protect against, whether it's Signal or any other app.
- fsflover 9mo ago> nothing specific to the Signal app The specific part is that Signal forces Google and Apple on its users, and forces the specific kind of push notifications, too.
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- JCattheATM 9mo agoSignal works fine on degoogled LineageOS, so I'm not sure that's true.
- fsflover 9mo agoLineageOS is Google's Android. Try to run Signal on a Pinephone.
- JCattheATM 9mo agoYou can use linux clients just fine, like gurk, which I linked you in another comment.
- fsflover 9mo agoAFAIK I must connect it to Android or iOS before I can use it.
- JCattheATM 9mo agoI don't think so, you could use the official Linux build as far as I know. I think it needs a phone number but not necessarily a mobile device. I might be wrong though.
- fsflover 9mo agoIt required to scan the QR code from a "mobile" app last time I tried. (You really have a lot of free time to write unsubstantiated dismissals to all my posts.)
- JCattheATM 9mo ago> It required to scan the QR code from a "mobile" app last time I tried. Are you against using an Android (or LineageOS) emulator to do so? > (You really have a lot of free time to write unsubstantiated dismissals to all my posts.) You pop up in a lot of threads I'm interested in and seem to say a lot of incorrect things, that's all.
- fsflover 9mo ago