Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption

Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by nix23 on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:52AM (#23429215)

Well i run a node (not exit) and yes it's better then nothing, but to fully trust Tor is a big nono, i said nothing else. Protections from private company or country's yes..but protection from GCHQ/NSA probably not.

And no you can trace it thru the ISP's, the problem is the latency, Connection from here to there in that millisecond trace one...and so on.

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Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by fsflover on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:56AM (#23429258)

If you are speaking about the timing attack, then you should consider I2P. It makes them significantly harder. In general, I agree that if your enemy is NSA, you can do very little. But you can make their life harder, and you should.

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Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by nix23 on Friday June 05, 2020 @11:07AM (#23429397)

I2P is absolutely great, a shame that it's no covered so much and Freenet was once also a cool project...i see we are on the same page ;)

Edit: GnuNet, RetroShare and ZeroNet should also be mentioned

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