Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages (www.404media.co)
from yogthos@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 02 May 11:42
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bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works on 02 May 14:05 next collapse

Oh no that’s worse. That means someone demanded they use signal and this is the best they could come up with given registrations that come with hierarchy

i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 May 16:07 collapse

Is there evidence that this is actually a US government fork of Signal for archiving messages? Maybe they just downloaded some other Signal fork from somewhere else.

monovergent@lemmy.ml on 02 May 20:31 collapse

Looks like it’s made by a third party: telemessage.com/…/tm-sgnl-android-installation-up…

i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 May 23:44 collapse

Amazing. Is it a trojan?

i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 May 15:59 collapse

That’s interesting. If you’re forking the Signal client to support archiving, you could also remove autoexpiration, the computer linking feature that is used when hijacking somebody’s account, and the ability to invite random people without clearance into your group chats. That would make it a reasonably secure and appropriate tool for communication over public infrastructure. We know they didn’t do at least one of these things.

DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml on 02 May 19:23 collapse

without clearance

Then you’d need to employ some sort of KYU (know your user).