▲ 422 ▼ ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS (www.theverge.com) submitted 1 year ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 104 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Ye-es, but wouldn't that be kinda slow? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago* Correct, and slow is kinda the point (traffic metadata protection through timing obfuscation) There's even a setting to set multiple Bote hops (inside I2P which already use multiple hop tunnels) with random delay per node (up to 24h) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago* Correct, and slow is kinda the point (traffic metadata protection through timing obfuscation) There's even a setting to set multiple Bote hops (inside I2P which already use multiple hop tunnels) with random delay per node (up to 24h) permalink fedilink source parent