Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/signal-clone-used-by-trump-official-stops-operations-after-report-it-was-hacked/

This should give pause to thought for all those promoting Firefox forks too.

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30p87@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What do FF forks have anything to do with that?

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- overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Risk of forks of a FOSS project that turn out to have added a vulnerability I think is the point.
  
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  - 30p87@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The problem here is not the fork itself tho, and it rarely is. The very obvious and openly communicated issue is the complete undermining of E2EE and sending everything to a single entity. Of course, very niche forks may have too few eyes on them to detect malicious changes, but that just isn’t at all the current situation with the Signal fork.
    
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Was the Signal fork FOSS?
    
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furrowsofar@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Interesting. Government record keeping rules require loggimg of many things. Normal Signal probably would not comply. This might.

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pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The TeleMessage website until recently boasted the ability to “capture, archive and monitor mobile communication” through text messages, voice calls, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, and Signal, as seen in an Internet Archive capture from Saturday. Another archived page says that TeleMessage “captures and records Signal calls, messages, deletions, including text, multimedia, [and] files,” and “maintain[s] all Signal app features and functionality as well as the Signal encryption.”

Just don’t even use encryption at that point

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- jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  www.archives.gov/records-mgmt
  
  Archiving communications is not optional (yet).
  
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Lembot_0002@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
NIH syndrome is incurable:)

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- kionite231@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not related to the OP’s post,
  
  But are you using FUTO’s keyboard? I thought that because everytime someone tries to add ASCII smiley emoji FUTO removes space between colon and the last word.
  
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  - Lembot_0002@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No, default Android screen keyboard. It does strange things while trying to “help” too.
    
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pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Why the fuck are you cloning signal you idiot fucks?

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