Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists

• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t you have to have some sort of MITM to be able to inspect that traffic?

  That, or a court order telling your ISP or mobile operator to allow the sniffing. Or just the police wanting to snoop your stuff because they can. Not every country cares about individual or human rights, you know

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• Cenzorrll@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t you have to have some sort of MITM to be able to inspect that traffic?

  You mean like your workplace wifi that you’re blowing the whistle at?

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• papertowels@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Would you? Are the headers encrypted?

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does it matter? How would you get access to such information?

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    • papertowels@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If the header isn’t encrypted it’d be easy to inspect, and this easy to determine where it goes, which is why it matters.

      Based on your questions, it sounds like you’re expecting the network traffic itself to be encrypted, as if there were a VPN. Does signal offer such a feature? My understanding is that the messages themselves are encrypted, but the traffic isn’t, but I could be wrong.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If the header isn’t encrypted it’d be easy to inspect

        Easy for whom? How are you getting access to the traffic info?

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