President Donald Trump downplayed the Signal chat leak Wednesday as a "witch hunt" and said, without evidence, that the encrypted messaging app "could be defective" as his administration struggles to stem the fallout.
The other tools in this recommendation:
Tor
OTR
TAILS
Qubes OS
I’ll leave it to others to comment on the viability of the rest, and Signal has gotten an enormous ‘signal boost’ from Signalgate, so I’ll count that as a win.
I’ve used QubesOS, Tails and Tor all extensively and they are all incredible. based on what I’ve seen, it’s best not to use Tor on its own unless you’re entirely sure of how you plan to use it - reason being that misconfiguring it can deanonymize you, so it’s best to stick with Tails for sensitive Tor activities and the Tor Browser for less sensitive stuff - Tails forces the whole system to interface with the internet via the Tor network so you don’t leak network traffic onto the clearnet when you’re doing silly business.
also a little shout out to Orbot which is a Tor router app for Android that will allow you to connect your whole phone over the Tor network (or just a single app). This is huge especially if you’re being censored in another country and want to use Signal or another app that doesn’t support Tor already.
This is a reasonable reply to a nonsense statement. Signal is plenty secure for us and whatever we need to do with it. It is not secure enough, nor authorized, for classified information.
No, but it still isn’t secure enough for classified information. The protocol is probably fine, but the weak point is the device. And the device can be compromised. Devices rated for classified systems never touch the public internet which makes them significantly less susceptible to being compromised.
Ok. Break into my Signal chats, without access to my phone. Go.
Oh wait: you can’t.
The defect he’s searching for is a back door. Not gonna happen. Everyone, please use and support Signal, says the guy who has been getting people on Signal since Snowden rec’d it in 2015 (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/edward-snowden-favorite-security-tools,30507.html). I had to look it up.
The other tools in this recommendation: Tor OTR TAILS Qubes OS
I’ll leave it to others to comment on the viability of the rest, and Signal has gotten an enormous ‘signal boost’ from Signalgate, so I’ll count that as a win.
I’ve used QubesOS, Tails and Tor all extensively and they are all incredible. based on what I’ve seen, it’s best not to use Tor on its own unless you’re entirely sure of how you plan to use it - reason being that misconfiguring it can deanonymize you, so it’s best to stick with Tails for sensitive Tor activities and the Tor Browser for less sensitive stuff - Tails forces the whole system to interface with the internet via the Tor network so you don’t leak network traffic onto the clearnet when you’re doing silly business.
also a little shout out to Orbot which is a Tor router app for Android that will allow you to connect your whole phone over the Tor network (or just a single app). This is huge especially if you’re being censored in another country and want to use Signal or another app that doesn’t support Tor already.
happy routing :D
This is a reasonable reply to a nonsense statement. Signal is plenty secure for us and whatever we need to do with it. It is not secure enough, nor authorized, for classified information.
I dunno if I would consider “user error” as a security flaw in the software.
No, but it still isn’t secure enough for classified information. The protocol is probably fine, but the weak point is the device. And the device can be compromised. Devices rated for classified systems never touch the public internet which makes them significantly less susceptible to being compromised.