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SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever (www.wired.com)
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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The incident has raised sometimes-misguided questions, too, about whether Signal itself is to blame for the breach—including from President Trump, who suggested in comments on Wednesday that Signal might be “defective"—despite many cybersecurity and encryption experts' recommendation of Signal as the best end-to-end encrypted messaging tool freely available to the public. “You use Signal, we use Signal, everyone uses Signal,” Trump told reporters, “but it could be a defective platform.”

This was one of my worries when the news broke. They're not focusing on this particular (misguided) point right now, but I'm worried they'll try to go after encrypted messaging next once they run out of excuses and the deflection no longer works.

[–] groet@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Germany had something similar some time ago. The military misconfigured and missused WebEx and some internal meeting got eavesdropped. The media jumped on WebEx but it was 100% a fuckup of the military and 0% actually a flaw with WebEx.