First of all, don’t add people to your Signal group chat if you don’t know who they are, says Jeff Crume, cybersecurity architect and adjunct professor at NC State University.
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Is infiltration the right word when nefarious criminals are happily invited to occupy whatever they like inside our systems, as long as they keep buying overpriced luxury real estate and invest in the latest coin schemes?
Nah. I know lots of people that are "doing something" about it and even as ineffective as it may be, we're doing something ourselves now. We, as a group, need to be really cautious with such a man because it won't take much for him to feel threatened and invoke laws giving himself more authority.
From what I understand, the person added to that Signal group had the name of someone who was supposed to be there, but somehow someone had changed the phone # on the contact to a political enemy. My guess is his phone was hacked. But we'll never know. It was unethical to stay on that group, tho.
Regurgitating redundant info is profitable. Skewing to align with the publisher's politics is easy, too, through omission of facts and clever writing. Everyone in that room during the famous chat was a witting or unwitting agent of Putin, anything discussed Putin knew, and not through Signal.
"Accidental oversharing by your drunk friend Ted" and "the 138th person you added to the thread actually works for the person you're hiding from" are so much more likely top disclose your private conversations than "the hackers" are. Spread the word?
While it might be possible to hack into Signal (however careful Marlinspike is), but why bother, when it is *so* much easier to just hack the phone it's running on! Every major intelligence agency and terrorist group on the planet probably has hooks in these idiots' phones by now.
Encryption is generally the strongest link. The encryption protocol (how you specifically make use of the encryption) that is part of Signal's design could have problems too. The specific code of Signal could have bugs. And finally the OS could have bugs. A single weak link and it all falls down.1/2
The NSA's best security experts probably built their own classified systems they spent billions on strengthening. These systems are likely a lot more cumbersome to use, but that's the price of security. When lives are on the line and national security is at stake they should make that sacrifice. 2/2
If such systems exist, they are far more likely to be vulnerable than, say, OpenSSL which has had nearly 20 years of public scrutiny by thousands of people (including the NSA).
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when you start your shower
be sure to remove your clothes
-- Pete Hegseth
Do not use Signal Chat.
https://medium.com/the-haven/i-took-part-in-top-secret-panama-war-plans-chat-0492e8c9ffcb
Next up:
you thirsty? remember water.
hot tip: drinking it helps!
Not crypto currency.
No shit.
Everyone in Trump's administration is a idiotic bloodthirsty window licker.
Even $1 can bring food to our tent.
https://chuffed.org/project/131238-living-in-a-tent-at-16-gaza-needs-you