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Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/technology@beehaw.org
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This should give pause to thought for all those promoting Firefox forks too.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The TeleMessage website until recently boasted the ability to "capture, archive and monitor mobile communication" through text messages, voice calls, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, and Signal, as seen in an Internet Archive capture from Saturday. Another archived page says that TeleMessage "captures and records Signal calls, messages, deletions, including text, multimedia, [and] files," and "maintain[s] all Signal app features and functionality as well as the Signal encryption."

Just don't even use encryption at that point

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt

Archiving communications is not optional (yet).

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do FF forks have anything to do with that?

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Risk of forks of a FOSS project that turn out to have added a vulnerability I think is the point.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem here is not the fork itself tho, and it rarely is. The very obvious and openly communicated issue is the complete undermining of E2EE and sending everything to a single entity. Of course, very niche forks may have too few eyes on them to detect malicious changes, but that just isn't at all the current situation with the Signal fork.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago

I’d argue security through obscurity was gone by 2000, for anything that can be pinged.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Was the Signal fork FOSS?

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Why the fuck are you cloning signal you idiot fucks?

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Interesting. Government record keeping rules require logging of many things. Normal Signal probably would not comply. This might.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At what point has this admin given a damn about rules?

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mike Waltz was actually one of the more professional of the by in large clown show. He may have cared.

[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

NIH syndrome is incurable:)

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not related to the OP's post,

But are you using FUTO's keyboard? I thought that because everytime someone tries to add ASCII smiley emoji FUTO removes space between colon and the last word.

[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

No, default Android screen keyboard. It does strange things while trying to "help" too.

[–] fireshell@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

But it's still a little better than Hilka Clinton's under-bed email server, or Hunter Biden's macpuke with pictures of his hookers that he just dumped in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, there's always been strife, which suggests that it's probably not accidental.