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| title | date | lastMod | replyURI | replyTitle | replyType | replyAuthor | replyAuthorURI |
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| Signal security | 2022-05-26T12:18:24-07:00 | 2022-05-26T12:18:24-07:00 | https://web.archive.org/web/20220620162305/https://disqordia.space/notice/AJqmgRLFlyVENIXcDA | europe wants to ban signal | SocialMediaPosting | chjara | https://tuxcrafting.online/ |
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.
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.