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Darius Kazemi
@darius@friend.camp  ·  activity timestamp last week

Signal's "Safety Number" is an important feature that generates a pop-up which allows you to "mark as verified" a man-in-the-middle attacker. This way the attacker is verified and we can all feel better about the whole messy business.

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Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs
@ellenor2000@mastodon.top replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@darius If you trust the attacker, are they an attacker? #lang_en

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martin
@mewo2@friend.camp replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@darius a safety number is an individual safety dance which forms part of a work of safety theatre

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d.rift
@feonixrift@x0r.be replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@darius And if they do it twice, you can't even see what 'safety' number the first one used! For extra safety!

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