Post by @mike805@noc.social

2026-02-03 20:41 UTC

@clock@f.cz @muzicofiel@mastodon.nl @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu How does that work cryptographically? I assume "recover account" via the phone number does not unlock previous messages? So it must publish a new key. Signal is the best you can do without deploying your own infrastructure. I have personally tried twice to do open source tools that let you deploy your own, and got no take-up either time. Signal is the best thing people will actually use. I've been trying to do encryption since the 90s and people won't bother.

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@clock@f.cz 2026-02-03 22:20

@mike805@noc.social @muzicofiel@mastodon.nl @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu No, but dictatorial regime can read new messages, so if a dissident trusts you you won't betray their messages, and dictator reads them, they may be abducted ("arrested") and taken to concentration camp ("jail") and killed ("die") there by deprivation of healthcare. And you may be abducted ("arrested") and taken to concentration camp ("jail") and killed ("die") there by deprivation of healthcare too after the dictator's henchmen see what topics you were discussing with your contacts. So Signal's security architecture may IMO indirectly lead to multiple deaths.

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