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Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages (www.theaustralian.com.au)

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Signal president Meredith Whittaker is prepared to withdraw the privacy-focused messaging app from Australia — saying she hopes it doesn’t become a “gangrenous foot” by poisoning its entire platform by forcing it to hand over its users’ encrypted data to authorities.

Ms Whittaker says Signal would take the “drastic step” of leaving any market where a government compelled it to create a “backdoor” to access its data, saying it would create a vulnerability that hackers and authoritative regimes could exploit, undermining Signals’ “reason for existing”.

Pressure has been mounting on Signal and other secure messaging platforms. ASIO director general Mike Burgess has urged tech companies to unlock encrypted messages to assist terrorism and national security investigations, saying offshore extremists use such platforms to communicate.

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 3 days ago (14 children)

backdoor” to access its data,

Is this what tos for signal say? It is their data?

Hmmm

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Does Signal not have data?

[–] TimePencil@infosec.exchange 2 points 3 days ago (12 children)

@9tr6gyp3

There is NO back-door to Signal.

@signalapp is blind to all communications. (Including, probably, this toot! 🤪)

Signal itself does NOT know who has messaged whom, nor when, nor how (e.g. the IP address is NOT known.)

If Signal was subpoenaed to produce my records, they could produce:

My phone number. (Actually, my number is the only way Signal could 'reference' my data.)
The date I joined Signal.
The date I was last active on Signal.
(This one is a maybe...) The existence of secondary devices that I use - such as the Desktop app.

I'm *fairly* sure that is all of it.
(Please let me know if I'm wrong.)

@sunzu2

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I never claimed there was a backdoor...?

Your items 1, 2, 3 are data that Signal stores, as well as the encrypted blobs of our conversations.

Which means they have data, right?

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