Comment on Signal downplays encryption key flaw, fixes it after X drama
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 months agoYeah the way I remember it, they put a lot of effort into masking that social graph. That was a while back too, not recent.
Comment on Signal downplays encryption key flaw, fixes it after X drama
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 months agoYeah the way I remember it, they put a lot of effort into masking that social graph. That was a while back too, not recent.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What I’m saying though is that for the longest time they didn’t, and when they changed the technique they hardly acknowledge that it was a problem in the past and that essentially every users social graph had been compromised for years.
KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Signal, originally known as TextSecure, worked entirely over text messages when it first came out. It was borne from a different era and and securing communication data was the only immediate goal because at the time everything was basically viewable by anyone with enough admin rights on basically every platform. Signal helped popularize end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and dragged everyone else with them. Very few services at the time even advertised E2EE, private metadata or social graph privacy.
As they’ve improved the platform they continue to make incremental changes to enhance security. This is not a flaw, this is how progress is made.
bastion@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Bam!
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did it get leaked or something?