Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages

• Insane_Turnip@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the number of folks who will run bespoke solutions will be so small that it’ll be insignificant

  For the vast majority of people, you are right. But for the very few malignant actors, that is the thing they’ll do. It will make ASIO’s job harder as they’re now trying to trace foreign VPN’s, custom-made encryption programs and other stuff that I personally don’t know about (I’m not overly knowledgeable about such computer things).

  The >99% of Signal users forced into the sunlight aren’t the threat. It’s the <1% of Signal users who ‘go underground’ that are the threat.

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  • quokka@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personally, I’ll spin up a Mastodon (or similar) instance for my kid and his mates.

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    • No1@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Sir, we have identified a potential terrorist cell”.

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• shads@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  With the irony being I am sure I read an article a few months back about the rise in small scale private encrypted chat applications that some groups are spinning up because they don’t trust things like signal.

  I concede the point, maybe I am a bit blindsided by the level of knowledge I can bring to bear on this as I wouldn’t find it at all difficult to spin something up.

  I mean how trivial would it be to insert encrypted packets using a one time pad into meme images, half the conversations between my wife and I would look suspicious under those circumstances, a straightforward sequence of pre shared DSA pairs and the odds of ASIO being able to break it are miniscule.

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you remember the article please share.

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    • shads@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can 100% commit to that, but I would suggest that its likely white unlikely. I have a feeling it was offline on actual dead tree somewhere.

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