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The issue is not that they used a particular app, it's that they carried on the discussion outside of a SCIF and were careless about who had access.

See bsky.app/profile/scho...

👻Spooky Costanza-Chock@schock.cc

"The bulletin warned of Russian professional hacking groups employing phishing scams to gain access to encrypted conversations, bypassing the end-to-end encryption the application uses." Phishing is not what we typically call a 'vulnerability', it's a technique to get access absent a vuln

en.m.wikipedia.orgMoxie Marlinspike - Wikipedia

2. Signal wasn't originally developed by the major social media platforms. It was developed by anarchist hacker Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin at Open Whisper Systems. It was such good e2e encryption, it was adopted by all the big social media apps. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_M...

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27 Mar 2025

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Will Carless, USA TODAY@willcarless.bsky.social

According to Wikipedia, @Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike has been detained and questioned by ICE/is subject to secondary screening at airports. The US government wanted to pry into his secrets. Now it's sharing its own on the app he founded. Can't make this stuff up.

cloud.google.comSignals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud BlogRussia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.

3. There IS important recent information that Signal is an increasingly high value target for phishing schemes, including the use of fake QR codes for Signal group invites that link the targeted phone to an attacker's device: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/... So, be careful w/ those invites, kids!