They sound staggeringly incompetent. And anyone who bought their software without any investigation into its quality also sounds staggeringly incompetent. Apparently there’s a lot of it going around.
In the 1980s the trend of the day was patriotism.
In the 1990s the trend of the day was being a rebel.
In the 2000s, there started to become a divide on what the trend ofthe day was. You were either pro patriotism/pro war…or, you were anti war/pro protesting. At least in the USA.
2010s the trend of the day was culture wars and division.
2020s, the trend of the day seems to be batshit lunacy and mindnumbing stupidity.
It’s 2025. We have 5 more years to go. And with trump having 4 more of those years, I expect no change there.
God I hope the 2030s bring some kind of sanity, unity, and enlightenment.
Or, barring that, I’d also settle for UFOs visiting earth and allowing humans to leave earth. I mean seriously. How bad could other planets be, right? I mean their species is clearly more advanced then ours. I figure humans had their shot. Now I’ll roll the dice and give these grey guys a shot, right? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
And hey, if they’re the anal probe kind of aliens, that’s just a bonus…uhhhh…I mean…what? No no, I didn’t say that. I’m just some random straight dude looking to leave this planet with some grey dudes I just met.
Here’s a link to the original article (from the same author) on the platform you should actually subscribe to.
https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/
Big 404 fan, but “original” is misleading. “First article on this topic” is more accurate. OPs link is arguably more interesting.
The Wired article is not based on the 404 article. This one goes into detail about the mechanics of the hack.
Non-paywall: https://archive.is/qwonI
Good that the most powerful people in the world use it then
works in almost exactly the same way as Signal, except that it also archives copies of all the messages passing through it, shattering all of its security guarantees.
Pretty sure Signal does that as well, which is not a security issue.
Signal uses end-to-end encryption (E2EE). The only copies of messages are on the sender’s and recipient’s devices.
Copies of messages are also known as archives.
Signal does not archive messages on server side
They weren’t talking about the server:
This app…works in almost exactly the same way as Signal, except that it also archives copies of all the messages passing through it, shattering all of its security guarantees.
Later in the article, it talks specifically about the server-side archives being stored in plain text. That’s why the hacker was able to access messages. This isn’t about the local copies on phones.
Yeah I didn’t read past the misinformation
Kinda seems like you’re the misinformation.
Maybe you should start reading up on stuff you don’t know about before adding nonsense to internet threads.
It’s why Molly has local database encryption.
That doesn’t really do anything. Attackers need local access to the device to get the database itself. Chances are, they’ll get the key right with it.
Molly encrypts it using a passphrase instead of a locally stored key for exactly that reason.
The only backup option I see for Signal is through Android, but it’s optional. There is no backup support for iOS or desktop.
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Backup-and-Restore-Messages
