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YSK: Signal is a great secure private messenger app comparable to others on the market.
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Signal is shit, its a honeypot. It requires your Phone Number and that the persons chatting have each other in their contacts on device, even if you convince friends not to use WhatsApp, WhatsApp, Google, Apple and every other App, someone installed that can access your contacts knows your Name, Phone Number and People you are connected to.
Signal relies on NSA Cloud Servers and "security" features of Intel Processore that are going to be broken or probably there already is a backdoor.
You can't have it on multiple devices with multiple accounts, its a closed ecosystem and doesn't have a big community involved with checking the code. They get funded by US Gov. and tried to put obvious backdoors in their desktop apps.
Use Matrix.org , I also heard good things about SimpleX.
Nice try NSA.
You don't even know what you're talking about. Security features of Intel chips? The encryption happens on each phone. Phones don't have Intel chips on them. The server is only a relay. The encryption algorithm is open source and security experts say it's good encryption. The code is right in the APK and anyone can look at it.
There is no way for me as a user to see who your contacts are by using Signal. Obviously, since it uses phone numbers and not accounts, the people operating the server know who you are messaging. But other users have no idea.
NSA Cloud Servers? I highly doubt that. Using a packet sniffer it's easy to see which IPs your phone is talking to. I doubt an of them are "NSA cloud servers". Once your encrypted packets are sent, though, it's impossible to know how they are routed before they go to your recipient. I assume the government knows exactly who I message, and I don't care about that. It's friends and family. If you care about that, then don't use it.
Get your facts right if you want to be an anti-Signal advocate because right now you just sound like a lunatic.
Yes. Because everyone knows that Moxie Marlinspike is a big fan of the NSA. π
Dude hates the government as much as I do. No way would he work with them.