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Signal Is a Government Op

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Re: Signal Is a Government Op

#45

Were this to have any semblance of truth, that would - interestingly - mean the government is "endorsing" crypto now, with the whole Mobile Coin situation ... Now, -that- would make it an interesting "experiment" ...

  For the sake of the downvote: Note the tentative nature of my giving this any credence - "were this to have any truth".

  The point still holds: It'd be interesting ...

Re: Signal Is a Government Op

#46
This article breeds uncertainty, without bringing a solution, or even a path, to the table. The references and language used, speak rather clearly that the author is part of the informal "independent research community", ie. conspiracy theorist (which unfortunately I had to acquaint myself with, because of family reasons).

While I'm open for convincing, I'll chalk it up as FUD until convinced otherwise.

Re: Signal Is a Government Op

#47

At the end of the page, after some unsubstantial conspiracy hints, all that's left is: > I’ve written at length about the deeper history of Signal’s government backers and the way in which crypto fits into America’s imperial machine. In fact, I dedicated two whole chapters of my book to the subject. I won’t reprint it here. But if you want to know the whole story, you can pick up Surveillance Valley at your local boo…

Which I believe violates HN rules

You are right. I made a mistake submitting this.

Re: Signal Is a Government Op

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Signal and to a much greater degree WhatsApp is used all over the place where it has no business being. A large number of politicians use these apps for communication all over the world for information that is actually classified. The reason it is in all these places because it is free, easy to use and supposedly secure. That the information contained can be exfiltrated would be news to them. All they know is that se…

No one mentions it because this 'fact' is both self-evident and is in no way specific to Signal or any other piece of software. If I can own the platform then there is NOTHING you can do to stop me from owning all of the information you put into that platform. It has nothing to do with any specific tool you use on the platform and any attempt to tie this fact to a specific tool or program is an indicator of an attemp…

It it is self evident to people who understand security. It is far from self evident to everyone else. To many who actually need security and are given the mantra to just use signal.

Re: Signal Is a Government Op

#49
> I won’t reprint it here. But if you want to know the whole story, you can pick up Surveillance Valley at your local bookstore. Or you can check out some of the articles I’ve…

> …This is a preview of a full letter that is only available to subscribers. To support my work and read the rest, sign up and read it here.

Says it all really. PSA's aren't supposed to be behind paywalls.

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