On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
No. They use your phone number as your identifier (unfortunately, probably for spam evasion) and the only piece of metadata they keep is the last time that # connected to the server.
We know this because Signal has disclosed subpoenas publicly.
No its not.
…and? My question remains.
@yogthos@lemmy.ml what you got to say for this one?
Verge doesn’t run flulf for free. This is PR 101. But I trust you bro
The Verge makes money the same way almost every modern media publication does; advertising to their readers.
Re-read what you wrote… JFC
This can’t be serious
The phone number is the key metadata. Meanwhile, nobody outside the people who are actually operating the server knows what it’s doing and what data it retains. Faith based approach to privacy is fundamentally wrong. Any data that the protocol leaks has to be assumed to be available to adversaries.
Furthermore, companies can’t disclose if they are sharing data under warrant. This is why the whole concept of warrant canary exists. Last I checked Signal does not have one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
So we are still back to “I trust signal bro”
I agree that their court disclosures are not a strong argument. I was hoping for something more technical besides faith based approach.
If they were asked by the feds to log, they are able to do so it seems this far
@helenslunch@feddit.nl
Am I missing something in this position?