▲ 188 ▼ FBI Warns Americans to Start Using Encrypted Messaging Apps (gizmodo.com) submitted 2 years ago by kid@sh.itjust.works [M] to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works 54 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) What do you mean? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) if a messenger is truly 0 trust end to end encryption, it doesn't matter who owns the servers or the legal protections of data because they won't have any data anyway. that's why signal is so good, when they get subpoenaed the only information that they actually have is the last connection and message sent unix times or something. still secure regardless of being in the US and being run on centralized Amazon, google, and cloudflare servers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Then the jurisdiction of software development matters. Don’t want a back door being forced into an update by the FBI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago The FBI can't just force them to add malicious code. A bad actor could try to contribute bad code, but Signal's devs would likely catch it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) if a messenger is truly 0 trust end to end encryption, it doesn't matter who owns the servers or the legal protections of data because they won't have any data anyway. that's why signal is so good, when they get subpoenaed the only information that they actually have is the last connection and message sent unix times or something. still secure regardless of being in the US and being run on centralized Amazon, google, and cloudflare servers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Then the jurisdiction of software development matters. Don’t want a back door being forced into an update by the FBI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago The FBI can't just force them to add malicious code. A bad actor could try to contribute bad code, but Signal's devs would likely catch it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Then the jurisdiction of software development matters. Don’t want a back door being forced into an update by the FBI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago The FBI can't just force them to add malicious code. A bad actor could try to contribute bad code, but Signal's devs would likely catch it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago The FBI can't just force them to add malicious code. A bad actor could try to contribute bad code, but Signal's devs would likely catch it. permalink fedilink source parent