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Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

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Re: Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

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Post by newsclues »

mmooss wrote: post #44
untech wrote: post #9

It is not plainly stated in the article, but as far as I understand, the first step of one of the attacks is to take the smartphone off a dead soldier’s body.

Is this serious? It raises questions about smartphones being standard equipment for soldiers, but they do give every soldier an effective, powerful computing and communication platform (that they know without additional training). The question is how to secure them, including against the risk described in the parent. That seems like a high risk to me I would expect someone is working on how to secure them enough that…

Phones aren’t secure but are more secure than the standard radios most have access to.

Encrypted milspec comms aren’t the standard in a massive war.

It’s weird but discord, signal and some mapping apps on smartphones are how this war is being fought.

Re: Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

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Post by monadINtop »

retrochameleon wrote: post #51
baq wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody cares about this unless they deal drugs or something. What some people care about is not giving all their private conversations to masculine energy zuck - but don't expect any major wins.

Awful shortsighted and uninformed viewpoint that has been beaten into the ground ad nauseum. Read a couple books. Privacy is a precondition to democracy.

>Read a couple books

Maybe you should? It might help improve your reading comprehension. The person you're responding to said that most normal people don't care enough to switch to a vastly less popular app, which is obviously true.

Re: Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

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Post by jisnsm »

croes wrote: post #21
golergka wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if you need to contact someone and they use whatsapp?

What if they want to contact you and you use Signal?

Luckily, with the technological advances in the last months, it is now possible to install more than one app on a phone at a time.

Re: Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

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Post by tsunamifury »

DiscourseFan wrote: post #56
throwaway5752 wrote: post #37

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The US was never the “hero,” you’re just not used to broad shifts in US policy broadcast so loudly. But this has happened numerous times in the past to other “allies.”

This is the glib over simplification he was complaining about with a haughty poorly informed statement

We have never done it with an ally this critical of this size with this level of investment. Yes we have done it with smaller, less critical nations very often and it is of coruse atrocious. In fact Sadam, Bin Ladin, and others were all originally our allies that we betrayed.

But we never did it against an aggressive nuclear power invading Europe.

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