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Signal Contingency Plan (spoiler: it's Delta Chat) (signal-contingency-plan.info)

submitted 17 hours ago by glitching@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Do you use Signal for chatting securely with friends and loved ones? Us too! We endorse it wholeheartedly, and rely on it for nearly all our communication.

But the vibes are deteriorating here in the US, and we should have a communications contingency plan for if Signal goes down.

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[–] SrMono@feddit.org 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

If the vibes keep on deteriorating and there would be a crackdown on messengers and signaling infrastructure a messenger is the last of your worries.

And if Signal gets specifically targeted, there will be warning signs and time to shift away.

[–] Vegan_Joe@piefed.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The warning signs are there

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Nope. That's not how Signal and E2E encrypted messaging works.

If a government asks Signal for user data they get an almost empty sheet of paper. Search for " what data does signal collect" to confirm that.

If - on the other side - your smartphone is compromised or unlocked there is almost nothing Signal can do to prevent governments from looking into your data. Also it reads like some agents simply joined a group chat. Again: nothing Signal could prevent.

[–] Vegan_Joe@piefed.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I was not suggesting that the encryption was compromised. I was suggesting that signal is being targeted.

Likely, they are infiltrating Signal groups specifically. Not through breaking encryption, but still joining these groups BECAUSE of the encryption.

The fact that these groups are using private encrypted messages are what piques the interest of the FBI in the first place. Signal is just the most popular and thus the most likely target.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Any software used by enough people will be targeted.