• NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    What’s being reported… is that the national security folks believe that most all top level officials already have enemy nation states ease dropping on their personal phones. Especially if, say… you’re in their country (like one of the members of the signal chat was, in Russia specifically, during the signal chat episode).

    Signal may be safe for us normies, but if your device is already compromised because you’re a high value target, especially if you’re in their lair, then there isn’t much good that’ll do for you.

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      5 days ago

      Yeah, if you device is compromised, the apps on it are obviously as well.

      But that still doesn’t affect Signal as a network directly.
      Which is imho a important distinction, as else all my communications could be compromised as well

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        5 days ago

        Media won’t report that, it’s be bad for the shareholders of iOS or Android was known to be exploited. They’ll just say “Signal bad! Signal insecure!” While these dipshits probably have given GIF Keyboard access within it and shit like that.