I'd love to have more of my socializing happening on Signal. Anyone got a good way to convince the non-paranoid to use it?
"Sorry, I only use Signal" has worked nearly a decade for me
Virtue Signalling!
Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
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#32I'd love to have more of my socializing happening on Signal. Anyone got a good way to convince the non-paranoid to use it?
Just explain what end to end encryption means. People are starting to get it and don’t want companies able to read their messages.
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#33So a few days ago Elon Musk blocked all links to Signal from the X platform and now this... Could be a coincidence but the timing sure is sus.
Not really, the domain block was reportedly due to increased spam activity from that domain and performed automatically, so it would follow that a write up would come a few days later. That is if they are related, which is not a given.
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#34I'd love to have more of my socializing happening on Signal. Anyone got a good way to convince the non-paranoid to use it?
Group stories are great fun and a feature I seriously miss on Whatsapp. They work well from meme chats to family groups.
There being a killer feature that Whatsapp users are missing out on won't convince everyone but it sure makes me feel less like a nerd when encouraging the switch to Signal.
I find it quite funny that such an obvious feature likely hasn't been added to Whatsapp yet because Meta thinks Instagram is for stories. That's pure speculation on my part though
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#36I'd love to have more of my socializing happening on Signal. Anyone got a good way to convince the non-paranoid to use it?
Just explain what end to end encryption means. People are starting to get it and don’t want companies able to read their messages.
Isn’t WhatsApp end-to-end encrypted?
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#40Signal (and basically any app) with a linked devices workflow has been risky for awhile now. I touched on this last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=40303736) when Telegram was trash talking Signal -- and its implementation of linked devices has been problematic for a long time: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/626.pdf.
I'm only surprised it took this long for an in-the-wild attack to appear in open literature.
It certainly doesn't help that signal themselves have discounted this attack (quoted from the iacr eprint paper):
"We disclosed our findings to the Signal organization on October 20, 2020, and received an answer on October 28, 2020. In summary, they state that they do not treat a compromise of long-term secrets as part of their adversarial model"