Signal is a publicly available app that provides encrypted communications, but it can be hacked.
This is misleading statement that will only confuse people who want to use a secure messenger.
To clear things up with anyone who’s not technically inclined: Anything can be theoretically hacked. Signal has not been hacked and has no history of being compromised.
The Signal “hacks” that linked people’s Signal client to devices that aren’t theirs were sophisticated phishing/spoofing attacks. The equivalent of getting someone to click a malicious link via email because it looked like the real thing.
A reminder that you still need to do your due diligence even when using a secure service. Technology alone cannot completely protect you.
Not particularly technically inclined so this question may be stupid, but suppose an intelligence service found some backdoor into Signal, wouldn’t they try to keep that information hidden from Signal? So in theory the chat could be vulnerable already?
You dont just find backdoors in real encryption. They’re placed there intentionally. Signal already had governments demanding backdoors and they said no.
This is misleading statement that will only confuse people who want to use a secure messenger.
To clear things up with anyone who’s not technically inclined: Anything can be theoretically hacked. Signal has not been hacked and has no history of being compromised.
The Signal “hacks” that linked people’s Signal client to devices that aren’t theirs were sophisticated phishing/spoofing attacks. The equivalent of getting someone to click a malicious link via email because it looked like the real thing.
A reminder that you still need to do your due diligence even when using a secure service. Technology alone cannot completely protect you.
Not particularly technically inclined so this question may be stupid, but suppose an intelligence service found some backdoor into Signal, wouldn’t they try to keep that information hidden from Signal? So in theory the chat could be vulnerable already?
You dont just find backdoors in real encryption. They’re placed there intentionally. Signal already had governments demanding backdoors and they said no.