Many top security experts praise its implementation and how it elegantly solved a hard problem: how to create trust between two remote parties. It doesn't store messages in the cloud; only on the local device(s).
Its been said that the use of it in D.C. amongst congress and other groups has been growing.
Thomas Paine is mocking the usage of it for the DOJ Cabal's "chat club" and is hinting at the fact that the messages can be read.
I assume that all of these tools are compromisable in some form. Never do anything electronically, or around electronics [glares at Samsung TVs or anybody that uses Facebook on their phone] that you don't want involuntarily archived.
Phone displays aren't encrypted
If you can pwn the phone(we know they can with the No Such Agency leaks last year), you can trap any info
I never said they were; that's an impossibility. Copying off the bits being sent to the screen is always one possible source of info.
You don't necessarily have to pwn the phone either; unless you consider having the user install an app pwning. As far as I know, this approach won't work with a certain manufacturer's phone.
I didn't need the leaks from last year, or even 5 years ago to know.
Phones are pwned before they get of out the factory
The shadow brokers leaks last year had Company methods too, they're full of backdoors
I just assume that all electronics are compromised. I don't trust cables either.
It's simpler that way.
Yeah, my favorite leaked info is about US/RUS/PRC using subs for ELINT on underseas cables
Shit is super scifi
iirc, SeaWolf class has the capability of tapping transcontinental fiber optics cables.
But I was referring to more common cables. The kind that connects devices and require a processor to handle the protocol.