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Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months ago

Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app

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Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app

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Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months ago
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Keeping your chats secure is a good idea, but end-to-end encryption is just the beginning of the list of options to consider when picking a messaging app.
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    Considering the US government now owns Meta and thus WhatsApp, it’s an interesting case… why did they use signal?

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      because “they” don’t trust the people they “represent” and they want to avoid federal archives

      they must know something about WhatsApp that we don’t

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        There’s nothing to know; facebook is facebook, and nobody trusts facebook for data security. Whatsapp is not, nor will it ever be, true end to end encryption, when facebook owns the locks and keys.

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          Also WhatsApp logs a bunch of metadata (who you contact, how often, profile pic, etc)

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      The government does not “own” Meta. Words have meanings.

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        Not for ideologues unfortunately.

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        Lots and lots of meanings.

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      Disappearing messages

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      If there is backdoor for them, then there is a backdoor for everybody who knows where to look.

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