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Re:EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app by DrScientist on Monday February 24, 2020 @06:57AM (#22403320)
If I worked for the intelligence agencies I would be capturing all the info going in and out of the signal servers at the infrastructure level.

Even if I couldn't break the encryption I'd have timing and connectivity data.

So, if I were a user, I would always operate on the assumption that info would leak.

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Re:EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app by Forbo on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:33AM (#22404214)
In this threat model, the only defense you would have would be an overlay network resistant to correlation attacks where all nodes are involved in routing traffic (like I2P), or a mixnet like Katzenpost.

Getting people to use Tor for everything is hard enough, good luck getting people to use stuff even more obscure.

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