Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials
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Makes me wonder...are there blockchain-based app stores that could serve as a viable alternative?
Bittorrent would fit well as a way of distributing the apps themselves, as that ecosystem already uses magnet links, and developers could quite cheaply run a node which acts as a seed of last resort.
Blockchain enabled transaction processing where the parties to the transaction don't need to trust each other, as long as they are only transacting in goods stored on the blockchain. Once you get into the world of one party having to physically deliver something the other party will use, you're back to the problem of trust.
So until all software runs on the blockchain, no, as long as you still need to install it onto your device, you need to be able to trust the delivery network. You certainly don't need a central authority for that. Normal desktop devices work perfectly fine with people relying on PGP signatures in common Linux distros or something like Chocolatey on Windows and Brew on Mac. But you don't need a blockchain, either, nor does it add any value.
Wasn't X forced to not have encryption built in due to the US's horrible encryption laws at the time?
What does “Services like iMessage do not fall under the traceability clause since the significant social media intermediaries in the nature of messaging services have to comply” mean?
It's sort of like a home phone. Law enforcement officials can contact Verizon to learn who you called and who called you, what time, duration of the call, etc.
That said, warrants are not always needed. The logic goes that the phone company already knows who you have called. They needed that information when they connected the calls. They store that information for billing purposes. So connection/metadata isn't private because you have already shared it with the phone company. In many countries that is sufficient to moot the entire warrant debate. (This logic then extends to other data used to make connections and route internet traffic such as IP addresses.) And if the phone company/ISP is a state-owned/backed/licensed enterprise there is little privacy left to argue over.
What are you basing this on? Warrants require probable cause (in the US at least). Are you saying that that the probable cause requirement still allows warrants to be granted very easily? Or that the probable cause requirement is not being followed?
Well, both.
Warrants may be granted very easily via the FISA courts [0]. They are unenforced in the warrantless wiretap programs [1]. If your wiretap happened to be illegal, and you want to work around this to win the court case anyway, you use parallel construction to build a case that does not rely on the secret wiretap [2]:
> Because the SOD's work is classified, DEA cases that began as NSA leads can't be seen to have originated from a NSA source.
> So what does the DEA do? It makes up the story of how the agency really came to the case in a process known as "parallel construction."
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...
[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05...
[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir...
[1]: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dark-side-fbi-dea-illega...
[2]: https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origi...
Yes. Probable cause is not a significant burden and can be met with "evidence" that would normally never be admitted. Cops regularly rely on unnamed out-of-court CIs. For telephone call records, the simple fact that a phone number appeared during an investigation is likely enough for a warrant to see which other numbers it has connected to.
How ironic
edit: removed editorializing.
Not that I agree with it. Signal and iMessage have way more in common than they do differently, but at least it’s a coherent sentence.
The voter turnout for 2019 Indian election was 67% compared to 66.7% of 2020 US election. So your rural areas and uneducated theory leads to less votes doesn't hold much essence :)
sorry if the source is old, i couldnt find a fresh one. the argument still holds, india is counting being a "literate" as someone who can write his/her name or read passages from 2nd grade. if that is what is passing as being literate then yeah, india is a literate country. if not then don't trust these figures
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/election-w...
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni
Add: and Signal's centralized server IPs banned. Signal is really weak here; shouldn't have been centralized to begin with.
Here is Moxie's talk about this very subject, and why he thinks that decentralized products can be much weaker products.
Well that seems pretty idiotic. It should be interesting to see how all this works out.
There still is, of course. Cut and paste works, and android's share works, but both of those send the message out of Signal (and perhaps back into Signal).
The cipherpunk future is fundamentally a dystopia. Trust in authority would be a wonderful thing. I actually thought the authoritarian future would be more subtle and well-tolerated, like “Brave New World”, but it’s shaping up a lot like “1984”, and I can’t understand why a central-authority would self-destruct like that, under no force of occupation.
All the while with Signal app, I’m fairly certain that message content is most secured (than Whatsapp) but is operationally resistant to providing meta-connection info.
Interestingly enough, I find that Matrix (Element iOS app) to be strongest in both aspect of connection metadata and secured message content.