Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

• Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Even if we assume that man in the middle attack is impossible with signal. Intelligence agencies care more about metadata anyway. Remember that getting meaning from terabytes of daily messages hasn’t really been viable way to mass spy anybody until very recently, since you needed humans to read them individually to get any wider sense of chat logs. if they know who talked to who and when. With those they can social graphs and get a list of suspects when everybody is tied to an identifiable phone number. Yeah they won’t directly get incriminating chat of somebody ordering drugs, but they can go nab the dealer and their associates with that info. Or they can have a group of key activists followed if they know that when messages between these people spike just before a protest happens.

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  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They also don’t have that data. Who you talk to and when it also concealed from them.

    Check out their blog article about “Sealed Sender” from back in 2018.
    signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

    Also note that the EFF encourages the use of Signal.
    ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal

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