• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    analysing network traffic wouldn’t allow an adversary to see what you’re sending with Signal

    How are they analyzing network traffic with Signal? It’s encrypted. And why does it matter if they know you’re sending a message? Literally everyone using Signal is sending a message.

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            Then you’re also a terrorist if you use The Guardian 🤷‍♂️

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              I dont’ know, do you have sources about this ? Or are you imagining thing and deciding it is true ?

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                Sources for what, exactly? What is “fantasming”? The title of the article you posted is “Criminalization of encryption”. The Guardian is using encryption to send messages, so why would they be exempt? In fact, why would any internet use at all not be criminalized? It’s all encrypted.

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                  So you read the title and you know everything. There is a liste of what they are accusing and their is no mention of internet

                  The elements of the investigation that have been communicated to us are staggering. Here are just some of the practices that are being misused as evidence of terrorist behavior6:

                  – the use of applications such as Signal, WhatsApp, Wire, Silence or ProtonMail to encrypt communications ;

                  – using Internet privacy tools such as VPN, Tor or Tails7 ;

                  – protecting ourselves against the exploitation of our personal data by GAFAM via services such as /e/OS, LineageOS, F-Droid ;

                  – encrypting digital media;

                  – organizing and participating in digital hygiene training sessions;

                  – simple possession of technical documentation.

                  But continue to invent reality. What are fact if not debatable point of view ? That the end for me. Have a great day.

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                    I don’t know everything. Just because it’s not explicitly listed today doesn’t mean it won’t be tomorrow. This was just created yesterday. And it does the same thing that all of those listed apps do: facilitates private communication.

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        No they can’t.

        E: if someone wants to provide evidence to the contrary instead of just downvoting and moving on, please, go ahead.

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              Packet data has headers that can identify where it’s coming from and where it’s going to. The contents of the packet can be securely encrypted, but destination is not. So long as you know which IPs Signal’s servers use (which is public information), it’s trivial to know when a device is sending/receiving messages with Signal.

              This is also why something like Tor manages to circumvent packet sniffing, it’s impossible to know the actual destination because that’s part of the encrypted payload that a different node will decrypt and forward.

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                Packet data has headers that can identify where it’s coming from and where it’s going to

                Wouldn’t you have to have some sort of MITM to be able to inspect that traffic?

                This is also why something like Tor manages to circumvent packet sniffing

                TOR is what their already-existing tip tool uses.