Using Signal Groups for Activism
Good tutorial by Micah Lee. It includes some nonobvious use cases. [...]
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Signal Blocks Windows Recall
This article gives a good rundown of the security risks of Windows Recall, and the repurposed copyright protection took that Signal used to block the AI feature from scraping Signal data. [...]
Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked
A messaging service used by former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has temporarily shut down while the company investigates an apparent hack. The messaging app is used to access and archive Signal messages, but is not made by Signal itself. 404 Media reported yesterday that a hacker stole data …
The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a US attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on March 15, is seemingly now suggesting that the secure messaging service Signal has security vulnerabilities. "I didn’t see this loser in the group," Waltz told Fox News …
Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes
Signal, as an encrypted messaging app and protocol, remains relatively secure. But Signal's growing popularity as a tool to circumvent surveillance has led agents affiliated with Russia to try to manipulate the app's users into surreptitiously linking their devices, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group. While Russia's continued invasion …