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@secbox @dat my real world use case was the El Salvador bitcoin story, where the danger was sufficient that some of my contact have fled the country
of course El Salvador then used Pegasus on a pile of journalists, which fucks even Signal, and .sv is poor so getting a burner is expensive
nevertheless, Signal was absolutely up to the task of journalism in danger, 100% would recommend to everybody ('cos the bigger the network the better) as just a daily messenger
@secbox @dat my real world use case was the El Salvador bitcoin story, where the danger was sufficient that some of my contact have fled the country
of course El Salvador then used Pegasus on a pile of journalists, which fucks even Signal, and .sv is poor so getting a burner is expensive
nevertheless, Signal was absolutely up to the task of journalism in danger, 100% would recommend to everybody ('cos the bigger the network the better) as just a daily messenger
Signal was absolutely up to the task of journalism in danger, 100% would recommend to everybody ('cos the bigger the network the better) as just a daily messenger
This is really critical. The privacy of Signal users is significantly enhanced by the fact that tens of millions of people are sending mundane traffic via the same servers. Doing traffic analysis on this is hard.
It's also helped by the fact that this includes the people using it for sensitive things. If you use Signal for talking to journalists and WhatsApp for talking to everyone else, it's easy for a passive adversary to see that you're doing something unusual.
@david_chisnall @davidgerard @secbox @dat
For whatever reason all of our local parents chats (people with kids born in the same year/month in the neighborhood) are on Signal so a lot of messages at very strange times of night flying around
@david_chisnall @davidgerard @secbox @dat Half my signal chats are about what to order for game night.
@david_chisnall @davidgerard @secbox @dat I use Signal to talk to everyone who's got it, except for those who also have Matrix, in which case I use that instead. And unfortunately, I still have to use WhatsApp because far too many people just can't be bothered to use anything else.
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