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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Yes there is FUD around signal. But they are not offering any better solutions.

Signal has some structural issues, and isn't a good solution for all threat models (i.e. if your a government who doesn't fully trust the USA, then signal isn't for you)

Any conversation that doesn't talk about briar, simplex, etc is deeply flawed since only they attempt to address the fundamental structural issues with signal.

Don't use that centralized chat service, use THIS centralized chat service - is just FUD... and isn't a helpful conversation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

if your a government who doesn’t fully trust the USA, then signal isn’t for you

how? i tought it was e2ee and open source?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The security of your key is determined by the strength of your passphrase. Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://hackertalks.com/comment/3441244

Uploading your private key to the cloud is a very risky thing to do regardless of your threat model. And there are many threat models that absolutely cannot do that. So it is worth indicating as one of the weaknesses of signal

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