Federation is not a thing in Signal. Funny how America preaches FREEDOM™ to everyone and Americans take it away in their software.
That said as avalos points out, the metadata encryption, audited encryption (also used in Conversations in OMEMO, as Megolm in Element (Matrix) and as Proteus in Wire btw), and all this being transparent and verifiable via open source code is a good reason.
Encryption does not work based on server location threat like 14 Eyes. I feel I have a say on this as someone who teaches threat modelling to many people besides having a hard stance against 14 Eyes proprietary technology.
Elon Musk’s tweet is not an indication of Signal being a honeypot. He simply capitalised on more fame, as his so called science poster boy reputation has taken a massive hit after tweeting “we all know who owns the media” and “we will coup [Bolivia for lithium]”. He likely has a certain political leaning and to anyone who is not living in a cave, can figure out his audience. He is pushed by the American military industrial complex as the science poster boy of USA, and USA projects their marketing icons onto the world as we know, which Musk is failing to be, as the world starts to wake up against America’s nefarious doings in small ways.
The last part is a bit political but this is what is going on here.
Federation is not a thing in Signal. Funny how America preaches FREEDOM™ to everyone and Americans take it away in their software.
That said as avalos points out, the metadata encryption, audited encryption (also used in Conversations in OMEMO, as Megolm in Element (Matrix) and as Proteus in Wire btw), and all this being transparent and verifiable via open source code is a good reason.
Encryption does not work based on server location threat like 14 Eyes. I feel I have a say on this as someone who teaches threat modelling to many people besides having a hard stance against 14 Eyes proprietary technology.
Elon Musk’s tweet is not an indication of Signal being a honeypot. He simply capitalised on more fame, as his so called science poster boy reputation has taken a massive hit after tweeting “we all know who owns the media” and “we will coup [Bolivia for lithium]”. He likely has a certain political leaning and to anyone who is not living in a cave, can figure out his audience. He is pushed by the American military industrial complex as the science poster boy of USA, and USA projects their marketing icons onto the world as we know, which Musk is failing to be, as the world starts to wake up against America’s nefarious doings in small ways.
The last part is a bit political but this is what is going on here.