Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked (arstechnica.com)
from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org on 06 May 06:56
https://lazysoci.al/post/25885705

This should give pause to thought for all those promoting Firefox forks too.

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Lembot_0002@lemm.ee on 06 May 07:14 next collapse

NIH syndrome is incurable:)

kionite231@lemmy.ca on 06 May 09:33 collapse

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 on 06 May 09:39 collapse

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

30p87@feddit.org on 06 May 07:52 next collapse

What do FF forks have anything to do with that?

overload@sopuli.xyz on 06 May 09:35 collapse

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

30p87@feddit.org on 06 May 11:01 next collapse

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 on 07 May 02:17 collapse

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

Ulrich@feddit.org on 06 May 16:24 collapse

Was the Signal fork FOSS?

furrowsofar@beehaw.org on 06 May 11:55 next collapse

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

ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com on 06 May 13:09 collapse

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

furrowsofar@beehaw.org on 06 May 15:16 collapse

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

fireshell@kbin.earth on 06 May 18:06 next collapse

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.

pineapplelover@lemm.ee on 07 May 02:29 next collapse

Why the fuck are you cloning signal you idiot fucks?

pineapplelover@lemm.ee on 07 May 02:31 collapse

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 on 07 May 03:04 collapse

www.archives.gov/records-mgmt

Archiving communications is not optional (yet).