▲ 108 ▼ Delta chat criticism against Signal (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com) submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments Source: https://chaos.social/@delta/115454041149791990
[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (4 children) Why wouldn't P2P work for real time comms? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) Could this violate Signal's security model? Your country would be able to determine exactly with whom you're speaking by nature of IP's being public. It's arguably more difficult if there's a server intermediary, especially when speaking to someone in a different country. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 child) Unless things have changed, calls on signal between you and people on your contact list are p2p. This is necessary to have a call experience like what people are used to. The latency of going through a relay makes conversation more difficult. Yes that does mean that someone on the network can see that there is a signal call between the 2 ip addresses (but they wouldn't know the identities of the users) https://signal.org/blog/signal-video-calls/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago Ah, alright. Fair enough. Though in that case my earlier assumption about AWS doesn't hold true either. permalink fedilink source parent [–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago Signal has the option to relay calls, but it is off by default. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) Could this violate Signal's security model? Your country would be able to determine exactly with whom you're speaking by nature of IP's being public. It's arguably more difficult if there's a server intermediary, especially when speaking to someone in a different country. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 child) Unless things have changed, calls on signal between you and people on your contact list are p2p. This is necessary to have a call experience like what people are used to. The latency of going through a relay makes conversation more difficult. Yes that does mean that someone on the network can see that there is a signal call between the 2 ip addresses (but they wouldn't know the identities of the users) https://signal.org/blog/signal-video-calls/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago Ah, alright. Fair enough. Though in that case my earlier assumption about AWS doesn't hold true either. permalink fedilink source parent [–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago Signal has the option to relay calls, but it is off by default. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 child) Unless things have changed, calls on signal between you and people on your contact list are p2p. This is necessary to have a call experience like what people are used to. The latency of going through a relay makes conversation more difficult. Yes that does mean that someone on the network can see that there is a signal call between the 2 ip addresses (but they wouldn't know the identities of the users) https://signal.org/blog/signal-video-calls/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago Ah, alright. Fair enough. Though in that case my earlier assumption about AWS doesn't hold true either. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago Ah, alright. Fair enough. Though in that case my earlier assumption about AWS doesn't hold true either. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago Signal has the option to relay calls, but it is off by default. permalink fedilink source parent
