SignalMar 19, 2025

"We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it *is* security." - Signal President
@Mer__edith for the Financial Times on the war on encryption

https://www.ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4e75-a2d1-a3671ea52ca0

The war on encryption is dangerous

Government demands to access encrypted data via back doors will leave it vulnerable to hacks, breaches and theft

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Show threadmelesMar 19, 2025

@signalapp @Mer__edith

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/20768-signal-and-protonmail-appear-on-list-of-sites-used-for-govt-surveillance-tool

If you are looking for security, you would probably be well advised to avoid Signal.

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@meles @signalapp @Mer__edith

Security and privacy aren't the same thing. And no, that's click bait. It is a company doing scraping of publicly accessible data, so it is unrelated to the security or privacy of either Proton or Signal. Please do more research before you make such wild claims.

Mar 19, 2025 at 8:00pmWeb
Show threadmelesMar 19, 2025

@unexpectedteapot @signalapp @Mer__edith

I wonder what data from a ‘secure’ app should be public data. Is user data public data or are the messages exchanged public data or what else?

Show thread👊🇺🇸🔥Mar 19, 2025
@meles @unexpectedteapot @signalapp @Mer__edith There is no public data on Signal, technically, though if a number is registered, and a user hasn't turned on the setting to hide their number from being searchable in the app, then their number is "public" to other Signal users. But just having a number to search is useless without additional information, like a name. See https://signal.org/bigbrother/.
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Show threadmelesMar 19, 2025

@Avitus @unexpectedteapot @signalapp @Mer__edith

So you mean the ICE contractor ShadowDragon is wasting resources pointlessly to get data it can't do anything with?

Show thread👊🇺🇸🔥Mar 20, 2025
@meles @unexpectedteapot @signalapp @Mer__edith Yes. As shown at https://signal.org/bigbrother/. Signal doesn't collect any data except phone numbers for registration, the date the number was registered, and the last date and time the account connected to the service. Everything else is end-to-end encrypted by default.
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