Users of the Signal messaging app got hit by a hacker attack. We analyze what happened and why the attack demonstrates that Signal is reliable.

  • bkrl
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    -12 years ago

    It is the sole messenger that doesn’t use identificators. You cannot get wrong.

      • bkrl
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        -12 years ago

        At the moment I think more than 3000 people. Young app. Needs it to spread.

            • JonesOP
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              32 years ago

              Oh, yet another messenger that pretends that it’s the only one that can prevent MITM. Abusive marketing, or plain misunderstanding of what e2ee means? Anyway I wouldn’t trust them just for that.

              • bkrl
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                12 years ago

                The code is open. You can check your own doubts.

                • JonesOP
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                  2 years ago

                  Not my point. Their webpage says that others (Signal included) are not protected against MITM (in the case of Signal, there is a note saying “if the server is compromised”). Which is plain wrong.

                  • bkrl
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                    12 years ago

                    Are you aware that, just to start somewhere, Signal asks (and needs) your phone number to make the service work? If you write “go to hell” to a person and two minutes later you regret it that person can accuse you with absolutely legal evidence in his or her favor. Is everything normal?