• poVoq@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    Without any proof either way my gut feeling tells me that it is probably not a deliberate US government honeypot, but there are just too many ways the US government can compromise some of the Signal employees in charge of the server software and code development, which makes Signal inherently untrustworthy.

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      4 years ago

      You don’t need to trust the organisation if you can see the code. And the way the signal apps are built you don’t need to even see the source of the server because you can verify that everything is properly encrypted in the client.

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        4 years ago

        That’s very naive. There are many ways of obfuscate the code to hide stuff in plain sight and you can’t know what is done with the metadata on the centralized servers (content might be encrypted, but it is anyways more interesting for surveillance who you talk to and when, then the actual content of your messages).

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        4 years ago

        signal is not anymore open source, u know shit about what is there and the fact that its crypted by client its just thw way how to make it look transparent.