Users of the Signal messaging app got hit by a hacker attack. We analyze what happened and why the attack demonstrates that Signal is reliable.

    • Oh, yet another messenger that pretends that it’s the only one that can prevent MITM. Abusive marketing, or plain misunderstanding of what e2ee means? Anyway I wouldn’t trust them just for that.

        •  Jones   ( @jonesv@lemmy.ml ) OP
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          Not my point. Their webpage says that others (Signal included) are not protected against MITM (in the case of Signal, there is a note saying “if the server is compromised”). Which is plain wrong.

          • Are you aware that, just to start somewhere, Signal asks (and needs) your phone number to make the service work? If you write “go to hell” to a person and two minutes later you regret it that person can accuse you with absolutely legal evidence in his or her favor. Is everything normal?

            • First, that’s completely unrelated to the very concept of MITM. Second, it also shows that you have no clue about how such protocols work (in Signal, in SimpleX, or anywhere else). I really don’t understand why people who are really into secure messengers often don’t really care about how they actually work… I mean it is damn interesting!