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Wait they were using an unpublished fork of Signal?
No. It's a wrapper around Signal that sends everything into a corporate cloud. The Isaraeli miltary/defense/espionage whatever have been using this, then sold it to a US company. I'm guessing the company provides wrappers around other apps as well.
It completely defeats the purpose of E2EE. I'm sure somebody told our oh-so-competent US government that's exactly what they need.
Like, it's actually worse than SignalGate.
Not at all suspicious. \s
So basically, they hacked themselves out of any benefit Signal was giving them, and then an external party finished the hack.
Goverment officials are required to archive all communications, so it doesn't defeat the purposes of E2EE because you can't have full E2EE to start with. If it was propely implemented and didn't get hacked it would be fine. Tho I guess implementation wise if it really sends all the data to a corporate instead of government cloud that's a problem as well.
If it was properly researched and approved by DoD and used on authorized, secure devices which were running on secured networks, it would be fine.
The baseline for security has been pretty decent for years. It's painfully restrictive which is why they're chomping at the bit to make it easier, but just slamming a corporate product into use with secret data with no oversight has never been fine even if it was secure.
They do provide wrappers for other apps too, I forget the name of the company but they provide them for WhatsApp, Telegram, and others.
well it’s published now….
the part where they’re a private company, keeping backups of top secret information… that’s only on there to avoid accountability….
yeah that’s bad too….
i just hope the hackers are the leaker type and not the hostile foreign government type…