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submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/privacy@programming.dev

Even State Department-funded Human Rights Watch admits that authorities combine legal and illegal methods to obtain convictions: https://text.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases

Combining dragnet surveillance with device hacking is intended in the design of both tools. Hence, State Department-funded Signal dupes you into handing over your identity as part of the population-centric mapping. In custody, your phone will be hacked when it is taken away if it's important.

https://xcancel.com/hannahcrileyy/status/2034273723667161480#m

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[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

Signal, if forced to do so, don't actually have the ability to give the messages within (despite a backdoor in 2019 discovered by Chinese scientists, of which was since removed). That's from what I'm aware of it, at least.

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