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What I don't understand about the whole Signal E2EE model is that while your messages themselves may be encrypted, they are still sending push notifications over Apple's servers, which have to go through APNS. Often the entire message contents can be contained in the push notification. Does anybody know if Apple's notifications are E2EE? I doubt that gov't doesn't have access to the push notifications...
What I don't understand about the whole Signal E2EE model is that while your messages themselves may be encrypted, they are still sending push notifications over Apple's servers, which have to go through APNS. Often the entire message contents can be contained in the push notification. Does anybody know if Apple's notifications are E2EE? I doubt that gov't doesn't have access to the push notifications...
I believe they are encrypted (and decrypted on device by the Signal app). They recently had to do some rewriting of the code for iOS15 - they share some comments about that here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-up... Hope it helps Edit: wow people were fast to reply…
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I think that’s uncharitable. Everyone is going through the motions required of them, and this is the public demonstration of those mechanizations (although Signal is a bit cheeky, which is fun). The next step would be government requiring, through legislation, more invasive logging and data collection (Australia and parts of Europe have already seen the beginnings of this discussion) of messaging apps (“we’ve asked f…
Isn't this what happened to Protonmail? They were required by legal order to start logging activity for a specific group of users. It's not outside the realm of possibility that the govt could try to force a company to either start logging Signal metadata or provide a backdoored app to a user. Not that it would necessarily work, but I do expect them to try at some point.
My favorite part of their response is that they gave the timestamps in unix milliseconds.
Account created: 1606866784432 (unix millis)
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A judge can sign an order commanding a witness or party to preserve documentation and evidence, under penalty of contempt of court. However, there is still a great deal of uncertainty as to what actions the subject of the subpoena must take in order to preserve that evidence. It's pretty clear that you have to disable automated destruction mechanisms, you can't disable any recording functions you may already have, an…
Sadly, not an open question in the UK.
Reminds me to donate to Signal again
Speaking of donations (a guy from a food bank whom I see in the Safeway parking lot didn't know this, so I think we can assume not everyone does): Most "donate" pages do not allow for "donor-advised funds (DAF)." They assume you're giving it with your before-tax money and presumably taking a tax deduction for it. In a DAF, which your financial institution surely offers, you can donate appreciated assets, e.g. your FA…
Like, let's say your intent is to donate $10k to some charity, out of the goodness of your heart and/or as a tax write off. You don't have that in cash, but do in stock.
You could liquidate $10k of stock, pay capital gains on it (if it appreciated since acquisition), then donate it. So you're out the capital gains tax.
The method you describe seems more efficient, since you don't need to sell; you simply transfer ownership of the asset.
Or is there still capital gains to be paid?
I wonder if billionaires are setting up charities as trusts for their kids, then "donating their shares to charity?"
Does Signal notify the relevant users regarding subpoena? The FBI request asks them not to but only says "Please do not", hardly required it seems