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@adisonverlice it's not just re: #Governments (tho #Project2025 explicitly endorses unsactioned comms to twart attempts at #FIOA or any #accountability for that matter), but individuals or any organization:

And if #EncroChat got pwned, who's gonna guarantee @signalapp won't if it's actually secure or isn't an #InsideJob like #ANØM.

After all, both #Signal's Organization and key people like @Mer__edith are known to the authorities by more than just their legal name.

  • What's gonna prevent #Trump from doing a "bag&drag" on her or getting his goons to put a gun on,the developers' heads and force them to,#d0x all users and #backdoor everything (if they didn't already got forced to have some "#LafwulInterception" gear in a closet like #Room641A...

After all, Signal can't pull the 5th and refuse to comply!

Twitterthaddeus e. grugq on Twitter“I’m gonna tell you a secret about “logless VPNs” — they don’t exist. Noone is going to risk jail for your $5/mo https://t.co/Q2aOQJkG4g”
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@Andromxda @pixelcode How can you claim something you can't evidence?

It makes you look like one of those folks shilling #VPN|s that ain't logless after all...

  • I don't believe in #marketing #lies and #Signal can't (and won't) be able to evidence that they don't log shit.

At least they should be honest about things and not claim bs, cuz demanding a #PhoneNumber is just #KYC with extra steps like demanding any #SSN or other #PII. Makes them look like chinese MMORPGs that demand ID card numbers for account signups, thus #paywalling the ability to use their service anonymously...

Infosec ExchangeAndromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 (@Andromxda@infosec.exchange)@kkarhan@infosec.space @pixelcode@social.tchncs.de > thus subject to Cloud Act They literally don't store anything about you, other than the phone number you used to sign up, and the timestamp of the last login. They can't fulfill any kind of subpoena, because they simply don't have the data. This was proven in court: https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/ I don't know what your mission is, any why you're constantly spreading misinformation about a secure communications platform, trying to discourage people from using it, without naming alternatives. It's pretty suspicious at the very least.
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@pixelcode @taylan @signalapp the #centralization, espechally without means to hide it's traffic via @torproject / #Tor makes it trivial to detect and track @signalapp / #Signal users.

  • Add to that the fact that Signal has #PhoneNumbers = #PII on them and the fact they are incorporated in the #USA, thus subject to #CloudAct and it's not a matter if they snitch on users but how many thousands if not millions got subopena'd to this day.

And with no self-custody of keys it's trivial to #Room641A the users if the devs get "motivated" under threat of spending the rest of theor lives in jail.

In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

[W]hat Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&T’s central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical “splitters” that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters—as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.—made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memo

Klein provided one of the pre-Snowden disclosures of massive communications surveillance in the United States. I'd included him in an earlier toot from May 2021: toot.cat/@dredmorbius/10625139

His story also demonstrates that "surveillance state" and "surveillance capitalism" aren't separate things, but part of the same larger surveillance octopus.

Electronic Frontier Foundation · In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass SpyingEFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a...
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@Brainclean I mean if you choose the highest end Xilinx FPGAs you can get realtime dreamcast emulation clock-cycle perfect.

It's just that you can expect to pay 5 digits per piece if you buy a roll of 500+ ...

Those things are otherwise used for realtime 100GBit/s fiber interception...

So if you'd ever get your hands on a #Glimmerglass #FiberSplitter out of #Room641A-Style facilities that is fried except said FPGA, you might get lucky.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641

en.wikipedia.orgRoom 641A - Wikipedia