Matt BlazeMar 24

Signal provides:

- Excellent protection against third party interception of communications (wiretapping).

- Limited protection against compromised (hacked) or lost devices

- No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat).

Show threadAI6YR BenMar 24
@mattblaze LOL this last one seems the most relevant https://xkcd.com/538/
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Show threadmccMar 24
@ai6yr @mattblaze To be clear, it's slightly more likely that rather than a literal wrench a government entity will simply issue a subpeona for your (or your chat counterparty's) chat logs and threaten jail if you don't comply.
Show threadKim Scheinberg

@mcc @ai6yr @mattblaze
If I learned anything from Eric Adams it's that I can change my phone's password, 'forget' what I've changed it to, and wait for half a dozen people to resign before my case gets indefinitely adjourned.

🎶 The one thing we need is a left-handed monkey wrench 🎶

Mar 25 at 12:17amWeb