masterofn001 ( @masterofn001@lemmy.ca ) 121•3 months agoAuthor recommends a meta owned company for text messaging.
Lol.
The Bard in Green ( @thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ) English76•3 months agoThe same FBI that keeps telling Congress end to end encryption needs to have legally mandated back doors in it?
adarza ( @adarza@lemmy.ca ) English42•3 months ago“our backdoors, not theirs”
(of course, they always fail to acknowledge the simple fact that “ours” becomes “everybody’s”)
qprimed ( @qprimed@lemmy.ml ) English7•3 months agoholy shit! the FBI is communist?! cool, cool.
Fubarberry ( @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ) English11•3 months agoThey want access, they just don’t want china to have access. Of course, when you add a backdoor it’s best to assume everyone will use it sooner or later.
davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English17•3 months ago☝️
If China’s access to your data were actually a high priority to the US security state, then they wouldn’t be installing these back doors. They’re much more interested in 1) accessing your data and 2) convincing you that China is your enemy.The US security state isn’t interested your security, they’re interested in what the capitalists are interested in: imperialism and screwing over the working class.
The very same
The 8232 Project ( @Charger8232@lemmy.ml ) 15•3 months agoSo… they only warn people about how insecure texting is after someone else exploits it…
Hirom ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) 15•3 months agoThe mobile standard setter, GSMA, and Google have said encryption will be coming to RCS, but there’s no firm date yet.
GSMA, please don’t come up with yet another poorly designed encryption standard.
The IETF is already working on Messaging Layer Security (MLS), please work with IETF and adopt MLS. IETF have more experience and do a good job at designing secure protocols. And multiple organisations and services are already working on adapting MLS (Mozilla, Google, Matrix, Wire, …)
ReakDuck ( @ReakDuck@lemmy.ml ) 2•3 months agoWho said the Encryption is allowed to be secure?
lattrommi ( @lattrommi@lemmy.ml ) English11•3 months agoWell, I’m stuck on a Verizon plan, so my SMS don’t send anyways.
ArcaneSlime ( @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 9•3 months agoI’m 100% not one of those “I have nothing to hide” people, but I don’t text about “things I want to hide” already FFS. In this case if the chinese gov or us gov really want to know about my plan to go get a costco hotdog with my friend later, fine, I don’t like it but also “whatever.” It’s not like I’m texting about federal crimes or government secrets, that’s what Matrix is for.
The only thing I don’t like is being forced to use texts for 2fa on shit websites that won’t except a yubikey (or flipper0-u2f, in my case) which seems to be most sites using 2fa ime.
oatscoop ( @oatscoop@midwest.social ) 8•3 months ago“I have nothing to hide, I just question your judgement and motives.”
In a world entirely populated by empathetic, decent, and sane people we wouldn’t need much privacy. Unfortunately that’s not the world we live in. There are countless unstable, stupid, and evil people in the world – some of them are in positions of power or might achieve power in the future. They are absolutely the sort to weaponize “harmless” information against you.
Do you want those people to know your sexual preferences, political leanings, etc?
ArcaneSlime ( @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•3 months agoThat’s the thing, I don’t really text about that stuff because texting is inherently insecure. Hell I’d sooner email about it if I can get someone set up with pgp than text, and email is insecure too.
But until someone can convince my mom, dad, aunt, job, etc to use Matrix, I’ll always have to use SMS in some capacity. I hope someone can, I’ve tried to no avail. I was close with a few using Signal but with the removal of sms support they stopped, and the iPhone ones barely used it a week before switching back because “they don’t want to have to use two apps” even before that because they still had to use imessage to talk to most of their contacts.
So yeah, I’m left with “don’t text about sensitive subjects.”
wrekone ( @wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•3 months agoJust get an iPhone
– Tim Apple
AnneVolin ( @AnneVolin@lemmy.ml ) English5•3 months agoUS 2010: “We’ve created and incentivised this gigantic drag net of information based on insecure protocols, private partnership deals, FISA court orders, and outright black budget illegality”
US 2024: “Pweeze use encrypted communication (that we have vendor relations with or that we have backdoors in or that we built as a honey pot) because China can see what’s happening in the drag net and they can leverage that information to compromise our idiot elites.”
Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 4•3 months agoOK. then photos of steganographed kittens
Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•3 months agoInstructions ignored, sending spectrogram from Aaron Funk’s “Look”
unknown1234_5 ( @unknown1234_5@kbin.earth ) 3•3 months agoso, have you guys heard of matrix?
coolusername ( @coolusername@lemmy.ml ) 0•3 months agoyeah, it’s cia
TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾ ( @TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•3 months agoYou’ve been asked elsewhere in the thread, but I’m gonna ask again here anyway.
Source?
JustEnoughDucks ( @JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ) 3•3 months agohttps://www.securityweek.com/law-enforcement-read-criminals-messages-after-hacking-matrix-service/
https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/13/228
I think this is what they are referring to.
I saw a Lemmy thread about it, but the main takeaway is that it was a completely different program than what we know and love. It just happened to be named the same IIRC.
InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 4•3 months agoCriminal matrix needed you to buy access for thousands of dollars, cool matrix is free and open to anyone. Technology isn’t even the same.
krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 months agoThat’s not the same matrix
JustEnoughDucks ( @JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ) 2•3 months agoHence why I said it
unknown1234_5 ( @unknown1234_5@kbin.earth ) 0•3 months agoare you trying to say that matrix is run by the CIA?
TXL ( @XTL@sopuli.xyz ) 1•3 months agoThe federated, foss software stacked network matrix. Right.
unknown1234_5 ( @unknown1234_5@kbin.earth ) 3•3 months agoHe’s either trolling or getting Matrix confused with MATRIX, a separate platform that got in trouble for supporting criminals.
Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 3•3 months agoGoing back to the roots with the Finger Protocol.
PenghisKahn ( @PenghisKahn@reddthat.com ) 1•3 months agoI’ve been trying to get my wife to use signal for years and she. just. doesn’t. wanna. do. it.
Matt ( @DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 months agoAFAIK more people in the US use iPhones than Androids, but that is taken care of since iMessage is encrypted (correct me on this, I haven’t sent an iMessage to anyone since I got my SM-A536B).
Sonar888 ( @Sonar888@noc.social ) 0•3 months ago@florencia Looool!!! send text only then. Means they have disruption on RFID.
That is a terrible idea. The basic privacy advice is to use end to end encryption wherever possible.