Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

Sn!pe <snipeco.1@gmail.com> wrote:

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

 
Can't Signal eventually be bought off?

>
They claim that it's end-to-end encrypted but whatever, it has
Whatsapp's functionality without being Meta and that's good
enough for me.

Signal does the encryption within the app, much like PGP.  So if Signal were
to compromise the app, it could be sniffed.

The good news is that sniffing the data between the sender and receiver gives
you nothing useful at any point unless the app is compromised.

The bad news is that updates are constantly being pushed, and just as it is
possible to push a security update, it is possible to push an insecurity
update too.
--scott

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