Why do people assume Signal messenger isn’t spying on you? Yes, it has open source code, yes it uses end-to-end encryption. But we can’t check which code runs in the version from Google Play or the App Store. And also their APK (IPA) build process is essentially a black box, it doesn’t use GitHub Actions or some other transparent build system. I also heard from Techlore that they add a proprietary part to the apk to filter bots. The only thing I can assume is that people scanned the traffic coming from the app (Android), phone (iOS) and checked whether encryption keys were being sent to Signal or not. But it seems to me that this can be also circumvented. What do you think?

P.S. I myself use Signal to communicate with relatives and friends. Definetly not a hater.

  • FarLine99@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    63·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, we can say this thing about many other private messenger, completely true.

    Best options for anonimity and privacy as I see are Session and SimpleX (funding model is suspicious for such a sensitive business, i know).

    Privacy news from France are really bad, Europe cares about privacy, yeahyeahyeah.

    • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Europe cares about privacy, yeahyeahyeah.

      They care about protecting user data at least, and they have made attempts to keep some of the giants in check. Threads™ isn’t available here yet because of these laws. So with one hand they give us some pretty awesome rights and protection, and with the other they are spying quite a bit.

      • CookieJarObserver@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Eh ECJ is probably killing these idiotic laws again before they go into power. I wish politicians that push that shit (like fucking Achsel Voss) could be taken to prison for being against the constitution of basically every EU Country and EU itself…