Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

• Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whatsapp and Signal are US-based, which means that they will give up your data on the first request.

  This is true. In regards to Signal, they do always comply with the governments request for data. The things is, Signal has next to no data on you. So when they comply, they give them everything they have (which is next to nothing). You can see everything they have given up here: signal.org/bigbrother/

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• kayohtie@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Signal have published several times when they receive a request for data and their response.

  Due to the mechanisms they employ, all they can actually give is if there’s an account associated with a phone number and the last time it logged in, if even that last bit. There’s some fairly detailed articles diving into how this works so well under the hood from a cryptographic standpoint, but it basically amounts to even addresses of users being able to be secret to minimize shared metadata to a bare minimum.

  Also the software is entirely open-source – app and server both – and are frequently audited on this. The server never has an opportunity to receive any plain-text data to store.

  The weak spot is always just having access to your device.

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• Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can turn secret chats on on telegram that do use encryption, I thought?

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• ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I like fluffycat :3

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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a little clunky, but KryptEY is an on screen keyboard that can encode/decode messages. The encoded messages can be transmitted over any service.

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