Signal Is a Government Op
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Signal Is a Government Op
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#2Quite convincing... How Signal is perceived from cryptoexperts?
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#3I don’t know what to believe anymore.
Whether it’s true or not, it makes me question what I’m using for conversations. I suppose it doesn’t matter anyway.
Is there something I can self-host for just my family? The issue of having them commit to another chat program isn’t a problem.
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#4For an article with "Here are the cold hard facts" I wanted to put [citation needed] on quite a lot of claims. I also feel like mentioning to the author the Internet is also a government op if we go that way.
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#5Yasha has published rubbish trying to link the Open Tech Fund/Radio Free Asia to the CIA for years. It's not. To be honest he continues to be pushing such dangerous false conspiracy theories that risk real people, doing real work. I work on Umbrella (https://www.secfirst.org), a free open source project to help journalists and activists learn about and manage digital and physical security. It was initially funded by OTF.
I am from Ireland, i've worked my entire life in human rights, including campaigning against CIA black sites, Iraq, NSA/GCHQ spying etc (along with the global range of issues from China to migrants). Why would I or anyone of the other hundreds of projects, work with OTF if somehow it was a CIA front? In our case, the linking of projects like ours to stupid conspiracy theories like this has endangered myself and some team members. We've had doxing and death threats from people from countries as varied as Ireland to Vietnam trying to say we are CIA/US stooges because of this crap.
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#6> As you can see from the way Parler was shutdown last week — when our imperial oligarchy wants to cancel an app, it can do so instantly and with a vengeance.
I was not under the impression that Parler was shut down by the government, but more by the "cancel crowd". Was it a government operation ?
As for the article, it seems the main arguments are that :
- Signal was financed by Radio Free Asia (US government propaganda operation), at least 3 million.
- If the crypto was effectively unbreakable, it would not be recommended by big companies like FB, Google, etc...
It's interesting and it's always good to be a bit paranoid, but the evidence is a bit thin for me.
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#7I would say mister Levine gives the government too much credit. Just because signal has received government funding (allegedly) does not immediately mean it's a honey pot like he is insinuating. The "government" is not a single entity there are different organizations with in it with different priorities and different interests.
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#8And the internet is a byproduct of the military industrial complex, so I guess we should all log off now.
This op-ed speculates that the CIA has somehow compromised Signal by merely funding it. There's no there there, at least not without some more compelling evidence that the CIA and Silicon Valley are colluding to spy on all the recent Signal converts. I don't know enough about Signal and e2ee, but I'm guessing more evidence would have to be supplied to cast doubt on the robustness of Signal's code.
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#9It's a lot easier to point at a fact everyone knows (Moxie took government money) than it is to find an exploitable bug in Signal.
This article is waste of time.
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#10Someone ate their Wheaties.