cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/71321898
Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone’s phone or by intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack or intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance
can’t get around simplex encryption unless you have physical access to the device or have been physically invited by a member.
You… didn’t read the article did you… that’s literally what happened here lol
lol
it’s literally a quote in the post. physical access was only one way they accessed messages.
That’s not the point I was trying to make. You are acting like simplex is better than signal because it requires physical access… that’s how it works for signal as well…that was the point…
Ok so no better than Signal?
You can do all the same things and use Tor, allow Sealed sender, and rotate username with phone number hidden.
Why does Simplex want investors?
what company doesn’t want to grow or maintain services? they host the primary servers that everyone uses, that costs money.
you could host your own though. can you do that with signal?
If I only want to talk to my own group of people registered on my server yes
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
as I pointed out in your other comment. signal uses a database, fails to explain why a database is required, and doesn’t even make a mention of it in their technical information.
why use a database at all? that just introduces more attack surface area and complexity for attackers to leverage.
Yeah precisely you didn’t check what it’s for. It doesn’t hold conversation data or even metadata.
breaking the encryption is hard , but getting around the encryption is entirely doable without physical access if you allow SMS or on-device sharing.