Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoPoland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternativewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down12
arrow-up1151arrow-down1external-linkPoland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternativewww.theregister.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squareNaich@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49arrow-down1·16 hours agoNot as stupid as the headline makes it sound. Signal is used in phishing attacks, whereas the home grown one is restricted to authorised users, making it more difficult.
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down1·16 hours agoNarrator: until someone else gains access
minus-squareNaich@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·15 hours agoYeah, I was careful to say “more difficult”. This stops casual phishing.
minus-squarenymnympseudonym@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·15 hours agoSomeone doesn’t understand the first rule of How Not To Be Seen Using an app that nobody else uses provides no entropy in which to get lost https://youtube.com/watch?v=C-M2hs3sXGo
Not as stupid as the headline makes it sound. Signal is used in phishing attacks, whereas the home grown one is restricted to authorised users, making it more difficult.
Narrator: until someone else gains access
Yeah, I was careful to say “more difficult”. This stops casual phishing.
Someone doesn’t understand the first rule of How Not To Be Seen
Using an app that nobody else uses provides no entropy in which to get lost
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C-M2hs3sXGo