Posted on 05/08/2024 9:30:37 AM PDT by Twotone
Any online service is not secure. Period.
A few years ago, a friend was telling me about Signal and that I should sign up. My response was, “If they’re telling you that it can’t be tracked, isn’t that kind of a red flag that you’re being tracked? Tell you what… if you have anything super-secret to tell me, call me and we’ll go for a walk without our phones.”
I always thought that Signal was a government operation; directly or indirectly.
It’s value is against commercial espionage of the ordinary sort - what kind of car you want to buy, what hospital you frequent, what family strife you may have, and so on.
For political dissent against the government.. it is not so useful.
C.W.
Regardless of his politics, Chomsky wrote about this practice in “Manufacturing Consent” over 30 years ago. There’s no reason to think it’s not happening here.
Frequency hopping spread-spectrum is almost impossible to compromise.
Is Telegram better?
I figure it really doesn’t matter. The powers that be know my opinion by now. ;-)
The real story is not about Signal (which I use), it is about Katherine Maher. Read the City Journal articles about her and think about it every time you use Wikipedia.
I see you were a ditty bopper in the real war. The USAF Security Service ditty boppers trained on the floor below us at Keesler.
I haven't had any experience with frequency hopping spread-spectrum but it seems like it would be a little messy to manage in a real world situation. I guess now-a-days moving up in the GHz bands, transmissions might be cleaner.
I suspect the CIA/FBI “leaked” the app in order to have full real time access to these peoples’ communications.
Unless FBI has the templates and now has full access to unguarded communications with these “dissidents.”
Yes, give people a false sense of security and then see what they say.
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