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title: "Signal security"
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date: 2022-05-26T12:18:24-07:00
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lastMod: 2022-05-26T12:18:24-07:00
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replyURI: "https://web.archive.org/web/20220620162305/https://disqordia.space/notice/AJqmgRLFlyVENIXcDA"
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replyTitle: "europe wants to ban signal"
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replyType: "SocialMediaPosting"
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replyAuthor: "chjara"
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replyAuthorURI: "https://tuxcrafting.online/"
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What do you mean by "false sense of security"? Signal's cryptography is pretty solid. It's one of the only messengers with such a lack of metadata leakage; if you combine it with Tor you can add enough noise to the network-layer metadata to be more private than almost any alternative.
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Don't get me wrong, [I dislike it on the grounds of being a closed platform]({{<relref "/posts/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users">}}), but few alternatives exist that support both offline messaging and have such little metadata leakage. I'm willing to hear suggested alternatives that do not bake a "cryptographically-secure, decentralized pyramid scheme" (cryptocurrency) into the protocol. I'm not aware of any such alternative at the moment.
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