Signal no longer cooperating with Ukraine on Russian cyberthreats, official says
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The encrypted messaging app Signal has stopped responding to requests from Ukrainian law enforcement regarding Russian cyberthreats, a Ukrainian official claimed, warning that the shift is aiding Moscow’s intelligence efforts.
  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    What exactly is Signal supposed to do here?

    They’re not supposed to be able to help in any way, how would they determine if a specific user is using Signal for phishing or whatever without decrypting their chats?

    Being European would make zero difference here, unless the European service is backdoored.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    People need to learn how E2EE (End to End Encryption) works. It’s not that Signal refuses to cooperate with Ukraine, it’s that they can’t from technical reasons of E2EE.

    Signal can’t read or intercept messages, at best they can log IPs and that’s about it. Which are useless if both parties are using VPN or other IP obfuscation methods.

    It’s same with ProtonMail for example. The most they can log are IPs, metadata and subjects that are visible to them. And that’s it. They can’t access or read messages unless they create backoors on login page that access users decrypted data locally. That’s why creepy governments are so annoyed by encryption (looking at you UK you creeps as well as Australia and also Germany from recebt news and I didn’t even mention ones like Russia…).

    • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The article is about a change in Signal’s behaviour.

      Before, Signal responded to Ukrainian authorities reaching out to about how the app is being abused by Russians, including for phishing attacks and account takeovers targeting Ukrainian users; now they don’t.

      Signal didn’t introduce E2EE just last week.