Signal’s exploding popularity among messaging apps, has lead many activists to re-open signal’s case, and consider why a “secure” yet popular platform has garnered little to no response from US government officials.
As it turns out, the US government was (and possibly remains) itself a primary funder of Signal.
This is just dessalines giving advice to antifa. Yes you should not use signal to plan illegal things. Its fine to avoid censorship though. TMobile blocks certain URLs from being received through text message. They literally filter out stuff they don’t want you to see.
Sending through signal works fine because its encrypted.
By not using any encryption you are offering your text messages up to the phone company for free. They can then sell those to train AI models for advertising.
I guess the concern is if the government can spy on “illegal things”, who defines those illegal things?
Do they include:
- political opinions not endorsed by the government
- free speech not endorsed by the government
- discussing medical treatments not endorsed by the government
- using the wrong pronouns when referring to people
- communicating with people the government does not like- etc.
The government already knows all these things about you.
You can determine your political opinions, medical preferences, whether or not you support pronouns in Bios from the YouTube videos you click, like, subscribe to.
You can derive all that information from secondary traits.
For example, almost everyone who was against vaccine mandates were to the right of the political spectrum.
Unless you use all your accounts anonymously (and you should) never use online shopping , use throwaway go phones, don’t register for grocery store cards your dataset that the NSA has access to can explain everything about you pretty easily.
The government already knows all these things about you.
And that is a problem. We need to stop accepting this historically unmatched collection of data about citizens by their governments.
Step by step we need to wind it back.
The security state is a relatively new invention. It needs to be uninvented.
Agreed
I think the government made tor too
but it’s useful for government workers to be able to securely or anonymously contact one another
the internet itself was a government funded project
so yeah signal has its red flags but might be a step up against regular phone SMS
might be a step up against regular phone SMS
I agree with you on that
