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Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages (www.theaustralian.com.au)

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Signal president Meredith Whittaker is prepared to withdraw the privacy-focused messaging app from Australia — saying she hopes it doesn’t become a “gangrenous foot” by poisoning its entire platform by forcing it to hand over its users’ encrypted data to authorities.

Ms Whittaker says Signal would take the “drastic step” of leaving any market where a government compelled it to create a “backdoor” to access its data, saying it would create a vulnerability that hackers and authoritative regimes could exploit, undermining Signals’ “reason for existing”.

Pressure has been mounting on Signal and other secure messaging platforms. ASIO director general Mike Burgess has urged tech companies to unlock encrypted messages to assist terrorism and national security investigations, saying offshore extremists use such platforms to communicate.

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[–] TimePencil@infosec.exchange 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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"Under FISA order, signal would provide logs."

How would Signal do this? Logs of what?

Corresponding parties? Messages? They don't have them.

They'd have to rewrite their backend code to obtain them, and changes would also need to be made to the Signal client apps.

It would not matter if the FISA Court ordered that logs be produced in secret by Signal. Any such logs could not be obtained without significant changes to the way Signal works. Users would know.

Yes, Signal does have some shortcomings, but these are acceptable in most 'use cases' for most threat models.

Signal is best used as a private, E2EE alternative to SMS. Only a fool would use it for the *most sensitive* of communications. (Like, you know, discussing an impending military strike...)

We all know of the alternatives, including (but not limited to) SimpleX, Session, Briar, Element etc.

@maniacalmanicmania @9tr6gyp3 @signalapp

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago

Logs of who you contact with time stamps ie meta data. That's the information national security agencies really only care about when doing bulk data collection.