On 07/28/2016 10:47 PM, Bastiani Fortress wrote: > I installed signal on my phone with some enthusiasm, but it's > practically useless because no one around me adopted it yet. It's sad > that once a "social" app dominates the market, it's very hard to get > people to switch to better alternatives unless there is a security > scandal or something. Same goes with ring... >
Personally I think having to expose the phone number of a smartphone to
another user to establish a chat is an incredible security risk in the
short and long run and leads to all sorts of metadata harvesting of your
unencrypted info. It appears one should keep a low-budget smartphone for
that use instead of their main number for better persec.
I questioned Morgan Mayhem (Intercept's sysadmin/cybersec guy) about
that when he broached how secure signal is (he's one of the developers)
on his twitter feed. Never got a reply.
Telegram allows the use of an @name instead of exposing your number if
you set up an account but I'm unsure what happens when a connection is
established and the contact is added to you contact list
Rr
> 4:53 AM, July 29, 2016, Rayzer <ray...@riseup.net>:
>
> Apple’s iMessage too! ("Signal leaves virtually nothing.")
>
> Quote source @thegrugq, Twitter
> https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/758833939020521472
>
> WhatsApp Forensic Artifacts: Chats Aren’t Being Deleted
>
> Posted on July 28, 2016
>
> Sorry, folks, while experts are saying the encryption checks out in
> WhatsApp, it looks like the latest version of the app tested leaves
> forensic trace of all of your chats, even after you’ve deleted,
> cleared,
> or archived them… even if you “Clear All Chats”. In fact, the only way
> to get rid of them appears to be to delete the app entirely.
>
> To test, I installed the app and started a few different threads.
> I then
> archived some, cleared, some, and deleted some threads. I made a
> second
> backup after running the “Clear All Chats” function in WhatsApp.
> None of
> these deletion or archival options made any difference in how deleted
> records were preserved. In all cases, the deleted SQLite records
> remained intact in the database.
>
> More, including 'How WhatsApp Can Fix This':
> http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6143
>
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> --
> You’re not from the Castle, you’re not from the village, you are
> nothing. Unfortunately, though, you are something, a stranger.
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