▲ 837 ▼ signal w (lemmy.blahaj.zone) submitted 8 months ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.world 134 comments fedilink hide all child comments mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mshelton/116214301513839946 article: https://signal.org/bigbrother/district-of-columbia/ context: https://technologymagazine.com/cloud-and-cybersecurity/protonmail-under-fire-over-data-handover
[+] bonenode@piefed.social 68 points 8 months ago (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] -3 points 8 months ago (3 children) both could log ip addresses and payment info, meta infos like who you message with, both do key management, only saves this stuff and then has to give it to the feds permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 25 points 8 months ago Email headers need to be unencrypted, unless they had a proprietary "almost like email but not interoperable" protocol. Signal doesn't have payment info for most users because it's free to use, but for donations they need to store payment data too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago I work in digital forensics specifically with emails, and this is not how the email protocol works Signal and email are 2 different things, completely different permalink fedilink source parent [–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 8 months ago Yes, both can, but both are not necessary, only 1 is. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] -3 points 8 months ago (3 children) both could log ip addresses and payment info, meta infos like who you message with, both do key management, only saves this stuff and then has to give it to the feds permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 25 points 8 months ago Email headers need to be unencrypted, unless they had a proprietary "almost like email but not interoperable" protocol. Signal doesn't have payment info for most users because it's free to use, but for donations they need to store payment data too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago I work in digital forensics specifically with emails, and this is not how the email protocol works Signal and email are 2 different things, completely different permalink fedilink source parent [–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 8 months ago Yes, both can, but both are not necessary, only 1 is. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 25 points 8 months ago Email headers need to be unencrypted, unless they had a proprietary "almost like email but not interoperable" protocol. Signal doesn't have payment info for most users because it's free to use, but for donations they need to store payment data too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago I work in digital forensics specifically with emails, and this is not how the email protocol works Signal and email are 2 different things, completely different permalink fedilink source parent
[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 8 months ago Yes, both can, but both are not necessary, only 1 is. permalink fedilink source parent
