Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right? (lemmy.nz)

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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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[-] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 6 points 5 months ago

How soon before using the Fediverse or running Linux/BSD on your desktop is considered terrorism?

[-] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

This article has already been shown to be alarmist and incorrect fundamentally. This is from X and like everything else on that site, it smacks of pro administration lies.

CM, cut this shit out mate.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 5 months ago

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

that's a transcript… of the verdict

[-] org@lemmy.org 0 points 5 months ago

Tag this user as a fed

[-] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 points 5 months ago

Looking at my wardrobe where 95% of the clothes are black. I guess I'm screwed.

[-] 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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