Wow. They leveled an entire apartment complex and killed at least 53 people in order to extrajudicially execute one person.
What a scandal this checks notes bungled invite to Signal is.
Yeah, ethics (and probably legality) have been out of the equation for a while now. The US are not officially at war. Very peaceful, much friendly. Too many precedents now…
Still I suppose trying to keep the leaders accountable for some of their actions is somewhat positive.
It really is amazing, isn’t it? Jesus saves /s
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They also struck a cancer hospital twice.
WHAT??? Do you support cancer? 😤 we need to eliminate all cancer hospitals - this is where you get cancer! The clue is in the name
Signal is a publicly available app that provides encrypted communications, but it can be hacked.
As far as I’ve seen, the only attacks are phishing attacks to get a device linked
This is far from being hack-able in my books.
Did I miss something?
I’m not defending those dipshits, but I want to make sure, that my preferred communication platform isn’t actually compromised
What’s being reported… is that the national security folks believe that most all top level officials already have enemy nation states ease dropping on their personal phones. Especially if, say… you’re in their country (like one of the members of the signal chat was, in Russia specifically, during the signal chat episode).
Signal may be safe for us normies, but if your device is already compromised because you’re a high value target, especially if you’re in their lair, then there isn’t much good that’ll do for you.
Yeah, if you device is compromised, the apps on it are obviously as well.
But that still doesn’t affect Signal as a network directly.
Which is imho a important distinction, as else all my communications could be compromised as wellMedia won’t report that, it’s be bad for the shareholders of iOS or Android was known to be exploited. They’ll just say “Signal bad! Signal insecure!” While these dipshits probably have given GIF Keyboard access within it and shit like that.
Phishing and also your commercial phone is definitely vulnerable. Look what groups like Salt Typhoon and their cohorts have been doing for years.
Not saying that this isn’t a threat vector, but it’s not like my communications are automatically compromised, like with a bug or hacked signal server infrastructure
For sure, but the primary reason governments around the world keep their classified data off commercial networks is to mitigate risk vectors. The US is just being led by a bunch of fucking morons, so they don’t consider things like that. The encryption within Signal is perfectly sound, but top secret data has no business being on their servers or on unclassified, commercial phones.
Hacking a signal server should yield zero useful results. Messages are encrypted on the phone before being sent. Signal servers only ever receive and retransmit encrypted blobs, never the plaintext. They, by design, do not have the keys to decrypt those messages. There might be metadata about who messages who and when, but I’m not 100% familiar with that part of it.
Now, if you pwn the phone, on the other hand, you can record the display and log the keystrokes.
Yeah, exactly
But when they talk, that signal is hackable, there is pretty much a difference to a phishing attack or an actual hack of the infrastructure
And as you said, with E2E encryption that shouldn’t be really possible
did I miss something?
Yeah, your devices keyboard needs an internet connection.
Bet…
