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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by test7777 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @08:46AM (#23712534)
algorithms don't matter for shit to the person that controls the (mandatory) updates.

its the same issue with all modern e2e apps like whatsapp or signal, if there is a single client implementation its not secure at all to these kind of attacks.

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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by traverseda on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:05PM (#23719093)
> signal [...] > if there is a single client implementation its not secure at all to these kind of attacks.

There are (where?) actually multiple "distributions" of signal, like textSecure on f-droid. Last I checked it worked with signal, but that was a few years ago.

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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by alexandrerond on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:57PM (#23719464)
No, Moxy killed the alternatives with really shitty arguments and banning from using Signal official servers.
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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by anonymousiam on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:29PM (#23716416)
Exactly! All it takes is a "demand letter" from any government with jurisdiction. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
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