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).
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Matt Blaze
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •If you look at the systems that are supposed to be used for classified communications, the underlying cryptography isn’t particularly different from Signal (the AES cipher can be used to protect classified material). That’s not what failed here.
The difference is that systems like Signal are designed to *facilitate* communication with anyone. Classified systems are designed to *limit* communication to authorized recipients.
Both are sensible for their respective - very different - purposes.
AI6YR Ben
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xkcdViss
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •my fam straight up refused to abandon Whatsapp.
Reason: meh… it’s just easier
My anti-facist rants are falling on complacent ears. So I’m blissfully out of the loop on family discussions and photos. 🤷🏻♂️
Kailee ♾️ Voting Midterms God
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •"Signal" was Hitler's magazine published by the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany from 1940. Recently Putin renamed his death squads Africa Corps same as the Nazi killers. Historical references names and dates are a favorite of the wanted war criminal Putin.
I hope the same name for "Signal" is just a coincidence.
@mattblaze
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal…
German propaganda magazine published by the Wehrmacht during WWII
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Hasufin
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Sadly, there is no defense against a classic PEBKAC attack.
(Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)
Alex Strasheim
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Signal assumes some minimum level of user competence. Dangerous, I suppose, if that minimum level is not met.
And Hegseth is the secretary of defense, right?
Corb_The_Lesser
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •- Yes, probably (66%, 6 votes)
- He send the invite to the wrong Jeff Goldberg (22%, 2 votes)
- No, probably not (11%, 1 vote)
9 voters. Poll end: in 2 daysbigiain
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Matt Blaze reminds us that Signal provides: "No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat)." -- @mattblaze
Next minute:
"White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist
In extraordinary blunder top Trump cabinet members added Atlantic editor to chat discussing strikes on Houthis"
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist
Peter Beaumont (The Guardian)rickf
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •@jqheywood
A totally preventable PEBKAC* security incident.
* Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.
RejZoR
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Where are Signal's servers based, now again? What is Signal's legal jurisdiction, now again?
Ilka
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Denton Gentry
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •I'm grateful to Signal for keeping the family conversations private, like strategizing on where we can buy eggs.
(Not even kidding on that, we've used Signal to compare egg prices while shopping)
The Icarian
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Gmjn
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •- adding journalists to your group on purpose, to show power/get a headline.
- hurting Zucks feelings not using facebook, insta or whatsapp
Siegfried.
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