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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • When there’s a disruptive force, you have a few options

    1. try to kill it so it can’t disrupt

    2. do nothing and be disrupted

    3. dip you toes in, so if disruption happens you aren’t blindsided and can hopefully wade through it

    4. take a chance and swim in it so you can be on the leading edge of that disruption.

    They’ve kinda tried option 1 but failed.

    Option 2 could lead to long term consequences

    Option 3 leaves them prepared but not overly exposed

    Option 4 would be pretty risky

    So really, option 3 is probably the best bet given option 1 hasn’t been working.



  • Signal messages ARE stored on the phone. They’re briefly stored on the signal servers with end to end encryption as well until they are transmitted to all the recipients, at which point signal deletes them from their server. And yes they can be auto-deleted.

    Once they are on the phone though, all the encryption benefits are up to the user.

    Did they password protect signal? Is their phone itself encrypted at rest? How long after the phone is unlocked and signal opened do the messages remain unencrypted where malware could then access them? How long does the phone remain unlocked once the password is entered but the screen is turned off? Are they even using secure passwords on phones or simple 4 digit pins?