not_me_ever
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Comment · 2 years ago
"We don't know if telegram is secure or not."
The point was: This is a discussion about Signal, not Telegram.
But by now we have gotten pretty used to deflecting every discussion about "is Signal secure" to "look behind you, a three headed monkey" or rather to "but telegram is not secure, because all Russians are stupid".
"I compile and run Signal from the sources..." Yes, so you get a messaging app that might be secure, while 99.999% of users use the one from the store which very likely comes from a completely different source.
"The original whitepaper" Just use you favourite search engine, we have been over this dozens of times by now. If you understand security I would start here: https://cs.nyu.edu/~afb383/publication/uc_signal/uc_signal.p... If not -- it probably takes 15-25 years to teach you.
Very rough, and simplified: "Double Ratchet has some very strong preconditions which have never been addressed by signal, and probably never been implemented by anybody." (Please, don't quote me on that, it's very dumbed down.)
Comment · 2 years ago
And none of that code can be converted to something that is even close to the published app.
They might as well just release the source code for the firmware of a fridge.
Comment · 2 years ago
We don't know if telegram is secure or not.
We do know that signal is lying: - About it's code being open source - About it's protocol being open - About it's funding - About it's massive white washing campaigns in forums - About smear campaigns against and harassment of journalists who dare to look into them
We do know that signal is probably insecure if(!) - It is actually based on the original white paper - It is actually using any of the code they released ages ago
There have been major security incidents with apps using the signal protocol, e.g. WhatsApp.
Who is the one doing the astroturfing?
You might not like the facts, but that doesn't change them.
Comment · 2 years ago
Source:
Read and understood the original whitepaper.
Plus verified it in the (probably fake) source code.
You can do it too. Might take a decade or two depending on your mathematical background.
Comment · 2 years ago
The random number generator in signal is fully predictable.
There is no need for a back door -- when the front door has no lock.
:sigh:
Comment · 2 years ago
Google has been ruining the internet since 1998.
So no news here.
Comment · 2 years ago
Funny how "journalists" who spend their day in a text editor, or at least should,
keep saying that 8GB is not enough,
while award winning AAA game developers are fully ok with 8GB.
Yes, 16GB (or currently 18GB) is nice, but it only means I can leave chrome & slack open forever; And has no impact on my actual work whatsoever.
Comment · 2 years ago
ML is quite ok at answering questions,
but it is very bad at asking the right questions.
Engineering is about asking questions.
Looks like we are at least 50 years out from "AI" replacing entry level engineers. I'll let me grand children worry about that, and use this glorified auto completion until then.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's genius.
And finally my $1/month 50.000 free worldwide texts burner phone is earning some $$$. Well $$$$$ to be exact.
Comment · 2 years ago
Broken software might crash -- no news move on
Comment · 2 years ago
Wait,
they write to protected memory, and get killed.
:tripplefacepalm:
Somebody hire some engineers at Oracle.
Comment · 2 years ago
JavaScript A Nightmare
Comment · 2 years ago
My GF earns more money selling her hand made weaves
than the average senior SWE at google.
When did they come for the weavers?
Guess it's time to burn this account. May 28th, 2024 I am giving up. The harassment has gotten out of hand. Keep your eyes closed to the truth, and keep drinking the cool-aid. I tried. Will move on with my very happy life now.
Reach somebody at [email protected]