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Re:Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app ... by wmf on Sunday May 04, 2025 @10:43PM (#43891528)
The US and many other countries have been buying Israeli surveillance tools for years or decades.

I would hope that any message archiving is being done on an organization-owned server though.

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Re:Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app ... by duskwuff on Sunday May 04, 2025 @11:34PM (#43891744)
> I would hope that any message archiving is being done on an organization-owned server though.

There's compelling evidence that the messages all pass through TM servers before being archived.

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-use...

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Re:Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app ... by userbinator on Monday May 05, 2025 @01:03AM (#43892051)
There's compelling evidence that the messages all pass through TM servers before being archived.

The question is where the E2E encryption goes between.

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Re:Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app ... by Klonoar on Monday May 05, 2025 @02:54AM (#43892536)
The E2E encryption is likely not even relevant, unless I'm missing something?

The builds that are distributed would likely just send the plaintext un-encrypted message separately to the archive, and I'm guessing that means it goes right to TM servers before being dispatched elsewhere.

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Re:Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app ... by Y_Y on Monday May 05, 2025 @04:48AM (#43893040)
Ah yes, it's end-to-end alright, end-to-end cleartext.
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Re:Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app ... by lysp on Monday May 05, 2025 @01:50AM (#43892255)
> The US and many other countries have been buying Israeli surveillance tools for years or decades.

Yes, tools like Cellebrite and zero-day exploits.

Those are tools which are used to spy on people outside of the government.

This is a tool that has data created by the government.

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