Russia targets Signal and WhatsApp accounts in cyber campaign

Posted by HelloUsername 1 day ago

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Comment by ezst 1 day ago

Reminder if one was needed that the future of your instant messaging shouldn't be above all "the same thing, but with more crypto" (e.g. Signal), but "less centralisation, then a reasonable amount of crypto" (federation e.g. XMPP or P2P ; though I don't know a P2P solution that's recommendable).

Comment by fsflover 1 day ago

> though I don't know a P2P solution that's recommendable

Matrix may soon become one: https://arewep2pyet.com/

Comment by jasonvorhe 1 day ago

I wanted to believe in Matrix as well, but after a few years, I basically agree with all these takes:

https://hanez.org/document/why-matrix-sucks/

https://paper.wf/alexia/matrix-is-cooked

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/giving-up-on-element-and-matrixorg...

Comment by ezst 21 hours ago

How long have you been around to still believe Matrix's empty promises?

Sorry, this is admittedly a harsh response, but not out of the blue…

Comment by Kim_Bruning 1 day ago

AIVD is the dutch intelligence agency. So that's an interesting source!

They're not hacking the systems directly, just phishing by the looks of it.