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NotAGamer@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Signal can only be hacked in meatspace. It’s totally end to end encrypted.

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  • rdri@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Still, most of bad stuff happening to people are not because something was hacked, but because someone leaked something. One person in a group chat would be enough.

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    • kn33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Either that or they were using unofficial clients that had flaws

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      • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s the meatspace hacking I’m talking about

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• Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tell me you dont understand cybersec without telling me you dont understand cybersec

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  • NotAGamer@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Encryption can be hack you nutter.

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    • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Alright I’ll bite. Tell me how exactly you “hack” encryption :)

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      • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There are several ways. There could be a vulnerability in one of the underlying algorithms, in the crypto system, or in the implementation.

        I’m not saying signal isn’t secure, but encryption can absolutely be hacked.

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      • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if someday in the next thousand years someone figures out how to reverse the SHA256 hash function or something. (And I know there’s an infinite number of possible theoretical inputs that can result in the same hash, but maybe they’d just pick the shortest or something)

    RSA seemed pretty strong until shors algorithm and all the other quantum nonsense came around, and I don’t think they’ve got enough quantum computers yet to render it powerless, but its also not unreasonable to think that eventually all modern encryption will be obsolete

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