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Absolutely nothing in this article is related to feds using conversation metadata to map participants, so, no they weren’t.
by rainonmoon 8mo ago
Absolutely nothing in this article is related to feds using conversation metadata to map participants, so, no they weren’t.
- causalscience 8mo ago[flagged]
- gosub100 8mo agoWe don't do the "duct-tape an insult to the end to drive your point harder" gimmick here. It will lead to loss of your account.
- dylan604 8mo agowhoa, losing access to a throwaway account created for specifically posting trolling comments? i'm sure they're shaking in their boots at the prospect
- causalscience 8mo agoThis throwaway account wasn't created specifically for posting trolling comments, this is just my personality :-(
- causalscience 8mo ago[flagged]
- jvanderbot 8mo agoIf you follow the X chatter on this, some folks got into the groups and tracked all the numbers, their contributions, and when they went "on shift" or "off". I don't really think Signal tech has anything to do with this.
- rainonmoon 8mo agoThat’s really interesting extra context, thanks!
- causalscience 8mo ago[flagged]
- OhMeadhbh 8mo agoYeah. It's notable they didn't crack the crypto. In the 90s when I was a young cypherpunk, I had this idea that when strong crypto was ubiquitous, certainly people would be smart enough to understand its role was only to force bad guys to attack the "higher levels" like attacking human expectations of privacy on a public channel. It was probably unrealistic to assume everyone would automatically understand subtle details of technology. As a reminder... if you don't know all the people in your encrypted group chat, you could be talking to the man.
- ddtaylor 8mo agoMy Session and Briar chats don't give out the phone numbers of other users.
- overfeed 8mo agoYes, but they have their own weaknesses. For instance, Briar exposes your Bluetooth MAC, and there's a bunch of nasty Bluetooth vulns waiting to be exploited. You can't ever perfectly solve for both security and usability, you can only make tradeoffs.
- ddtaylor 8mo agoBriar has multiple modes of operation. The Bluetooth mode is not the default mode of operation and is there for circumstances where Internet has been shut down entirely. For users who configure Briar to connect exclusively over Tor using the normal startup (e.g., for internet-based syncing) and disable Bluetooth, there is no Bluetooth involvement at all, so your Bluetooth MAC address is not exposed.