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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 retrochameleon »

baq wrote: post #41
Mistletoe wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just explain what end to end encryption means. People are starting to get it and don’t want companies able to read their messages.

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.

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

#52

Post by potato3732842 »

throwawayq3423 wrote: post #39
echelon_musk wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Virtue Signalling!

Which is bad, how?

It's a joke, because virtue signaling (or whatever name you want to give it) is bad, but Signal the messenger app is good so it's a play on words.

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

#53

Post by mmooss »

lenerdenator wrote: post #11

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?

I helped an especially non-technical user install Signal and they didn't need my help at all. They were using it in a minute - download from the app store, transcribe a code from a text message, and you're in - and it worked just like legacy text and phone.

I'd tell them that - just download it and you'll be texting me in a minute, and now nobody is tracking everyone you talk to.

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

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Post by DemPartyPooper »

Henchman21 wrote: post #17
golergka wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

IME you say “Sorry I only use Signal” and either they change or you don’t get in contact with that person. If you change and abandon your principles were they really principles in the first place?

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

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Post by mmooss »

mikedelfino wrote: post #36
Mistletoe wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I thought they recorded the metadata - who talks to who and when. (For the uninitiated, that is as valuable or more valuable than the message contents.)

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

#57

Post by prmoustache »

golergka wrote: post #24
Henchman21 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IME you say “Sorry I only use Signal” and either they change or you don’t get in contact with that person. If you change and abandon your principles were they really principles in the first place?

How do you tell that to them in the first place? You got someone's phone number. The person who gives it to you tells them that they use whatsapp. You can't even tell them "Sorry I only use Signal" unless you open whatsapp app.

If they can't reach you via whatsapp, they will call you.

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

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Post by snailmailstare »

p2detar wrote: post #14

Last week it was Microsoft, now Signal, who’s next? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/02/13/sto...

I hate to break it to you, but threat actors aligned with any major state are targeting everything with an Internet presence all of the time.

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

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Post by baq »

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.

It isn't a viewpoint. It's a fact. I'm using signal for almost a decade now and only managed to get a dozen or so people to use it in any capacity. Most keep using whatsapp as their primary method of communication anyway.

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

#60

Post by imglorp »

mmooss wrote: post #53
lenerdenator wrote: post #11

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?

I helped an especially non-technical user install Signal and they didn't need my help at all. They were using it in a minute - download from the app store, transcribe a code from a text message, and you're in - and it worked just like legacy text and phone. I'd tell them that - just download it and you'll be texting me in a minute, and now nobody is tracking everyone you talk to.

To be clear, someone will/can track WHO you talk to. Right?
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