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Like one of the main things Signal is really terrible at given that it is based in the US and hosted on AWS servers ๐คฆ
Besides being hosted in the AWS servers, there's no way to check if what's running there is the same as the published code. That's why i don't use signal.
When the signal foundation is losing money every year, i can just wonder what will happen when the money runs out. Even the good guys need to eat.
Or what will happen when trump will decide to seize the AWS servers running the signal application server.
You don't need to care about the server code since the secure bits and encryption that matters is all on the client side and verifiable.
i do care about metadata.
as in phone number, IP and timestamps? If I were worried about that I wouldn't have a phone in the first place but if private messaging (content is private) I think signal works fine
If you care about it then just use Signal since it's the one with least amount of metadata fying around. A big central server with many normies using it also ensures that it's very hard to correlate traffic.
No, because of:
I have seen this film so many times....
It shouldn't matter because you can verify that your data is encrypted and thus not accessible to the server, but also, IIUC, they use secure enclaves so that you can verify that their server is running the published source code.
How do we know he hasn't already?
No need to size them. AWS is deeply embedded into the intelligence apparatus of the NSA as one of their prioritized suppliers.
I believe the fact that Signal is hosted on Apple or Google clients is worse than its server host. (I still use and recommend it though)
Convincing people to use an open Android build is much harder than installing another messenger.
It's e2e encrypted. Although, as I noticed, the key is just a short pin, unless you use password, but the recipient might not use it and your messages are just as secure as your recipient.
The PIN isn't actually the encryption key, it's just a display lock for the local client. But if whoever wants to read your messages has physical access to your phone and already bypassed the normal android lockscreen, you're fucked anyway.
The other party is always the weakest link.
But also signal's pins are a little more complicated than that, but you're right, switch to a passphrase.
Plus side, even if signal themselves edited the secure enclave, the world would need a new client pushed and probably notice something was off.
The way signal's encryption works is really an art in paranoia.
Facebook Messenger also claims to be end-to-end encrypted... There's literally no way of knowing if they can decrypt your messages.
The only way to know is to host it yourself and preferably use post-quantum secure encryption.