Critical Discussion About the Use of the Signal App in Autonomous and Anarchist Circles

https://itsgoingdown.org/signal-fails/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Interdasting conversation re: Signal (Why I wont recommend Signal anymore, 2016)

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>Does Google know you are using Signal?

>Does it know whom of your contacts use Signal?

>Does Google know you've sent a message?

>Does Google know that you are receiving a message?

>Does Google knows who from your contact list send this message?

>Can Google infer from pings who is communicating with whom?

>Yes to all of those, because they have root on your phone.

>What exactly is a TAO target?

>Aka NSA's "we really need to get access to this device and will fund diverting backbone traffic / writing firmware malware / whatever else we need to in order to get it" team(s).

>Google has root on your phone. Even if they aren't "for now", good security sense says that we should assume that are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12880520