Seriously, #Signal / @signalapp is bad and everyone who relies on @Mer__edith et. al. to not break when handed a duely issued warrant (or being held at gunpoint) by #US authorities is as dellusional as the users of #ANØM and #EncroChat!

There's no valid excuse to collect #PII like a #PhoneNumber!

• And Signal being not just able but entirely willing to "restrict services" based off the presumed location of the users is just a big red flag.

If they took #Security seriously, they'd use #XMPP+#OMEMO over #Tor and let users have 100% #SelfCustody of all the keys as well as completely #decentralize, including the ability to #SelfHost on @torproject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoO2uWrX1M&t=887s

@Jerry FOR WHAT FUCKIBG PURPOSE DOES @signalapp EVEN WANT #Location DATA BUT #Spying ON IT'S USERS?

• Also demanding #PII like a #PhoneNumber which at best is pseudonymous amd trivial to #deanonymize IS the #IllicitActivity!

Also it's not even #FLOSS (why else is there no #Signal #App on @fdroidorg ?)

• My verdict is that Signal - like #ANØM - is a #HoneyPot… I don't have evidenye - yet - but so far my track record has been excellent…

@lucasmz @fdroidorg @torproject

Let's just say @signalapp / #Signal is so good, it scratches that part of my mind that doesn't allow good to exist without precondition...

• Kinda like #ANØM & #EncroChat did.

But maybe that's just me flexing life experience and the fact that my paranoia always turned out to be justified.

• I don't trust anyone to actually save someone's ass and I'm convinced neither @Mer__edith nor #MoxieMarlinspike before her (who shoved the #MobileCoin #Shitcoin #scam into Signal) would risk jailtime for their users...

Given they offer their Services to people in #Russia, #Cuba and #Iran, thus being in clonflict with #ITAR, I'm pretty much convinced they had to have a deal with the U.S. Government to get that done.

• Espechally when #PayPal can't even legally process payments for products from Cuba that are ostensibly not "dual-purpose"...

So yeah, there will be some #LawfulInterception doodat and even if it's not within Signal's infrastructure, I'd call the #NSA "criminally stupid" if they didn't intercept all the "Verification #SMS" and all the data from and to Signal's Systems routinely to #BULLRUN against it...

@simsus der "unbekannte Staat" ist #Litauen...

Die Begründung des #BVerfG ist jedoch sehr absurd, gerade weil die #USA nachweislich Menschen #verschwindenlassen, #foltern und nach belieben ohne rechtsstaatliches Verfahren per #Drohnen ermorden lassen.

• Dass dies mit der #Rechtsstaatlichkeit und dem #Grundgesetz unvereinbar ist sollte allen klar sein.

Alles was eine solche Entscheidung macht sind #Umgehungen des #Beweismittelverbot|es mittels #Drittstaaten zu normalisieren...

• Sei es #Frankreich (#EncroChat) oder #US-Dienste (#ANØM)...

Was kommt als nächstes? Das #BKA sourced #hacking an die #NSA und #China|s #Stasi aus??

@Mer__edith on a different note: Does @signalapp plan to actually increase it's own #privacy and #security by not demanding #PII like a #PhoneNumber, not mandating the garbage #app to have #CameraAccess (which doesn't work on devices without a camera!) and actually #decentralizing onto @torproject / #Tor, mandating real #E2EE with #SelfCustody of all the keys as well as removing the #Shitcoin that is #MobileCoin from it?

• Cuz so far #Signal looks as much to me like a #HoneyPot as #ANØM...

And it's not as if I didn't try it out!

@WinFuture wenn @Mer__edith und @signalapp wirklich was dagegen tun wollten, würden diese konsequent die eigene Nutzerschaft mobilisieren und vorallen *aufhören, personenbezogene Daten (wie z.B. Telefonnummern) zu sammeln sowie deren Backend nach @torproject / #Tor verlagern.

• Am ende ist #Signal auch nur nen #Honeypot wie #ANØM - sonst wär's wie #EncroChat lange staatlicherseits abgeschaltet worden.