Whatever it is those incompetent clowns are doing over there in 'murica, I got multiple contacts who weren't on Signal popping up there in the last day or two.

It's good advertising for the service at least!

@GossiTheDog @kchr @kimzetter

And again, I challenge you to show me ANYWHERE that #Signal is permitted for the processing or storage of non-public government information. The NSA memo (link below) explicitly calls out that it shall not be used even for *unclassified* (protected, FOUO, CUI) data. And that would apply to everybody in the national security apparatus.

Anybody stating anything to the contrary is a liar, a shill or both.

https://www.scribd.com/document/843124910/NSA-full

@GossiTheDog @kchr @kimzetter
Nope. Show me where #Signal is approved anywhere within the #USGovernment for official non-public communications.

#CISA is recommending best practices in the absence of any official guidelines: "Organizations may already have these best practices in place, such as secure communication platforms and multifactor authentication (MFA) policies."

And you can bet 100% that everybody in the national security apparatus has official policies and apps. Signal isn't one.

@GossiTheDog @kchr @kimzetter

JFC, that's from #Foxnews, so they whitewashed this small detail:

"Organizations may already have these best practices in place, such as secure communication
platforms and multifactor authentication (MFA) policies. In cases where organizations do not, apply the
following best practices to your mobile devices"

#Signal is absolutely NOT approved for DoD classified/SBU comms. It is recommended for personal, non official comms only
Stop spreading

@GossiTheDog @kimzetter

And these were personal devices, because you can't install non-approved apps like #Signal on a government-issued device unless you illicitly bypass the device management system. And as personal devices, they are much more likely to be compromised because they are managed by people without any cybersecurity expertise. And because they're not monitored no one will know if they are compromised. It's just an awful cyber security rabbit hole.
They should all go to jail.

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X (Elon Musk) is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers. That should tell you that Signal is a smart messaging app to use.

#resistance #endfascism #signal

By popular demand, a single post to boost global switch day across multiple platforms on February 1st 2025.


For those who can no longer get behind Musk or Meta's new policies and feel like switching (e.g. from #Whatsapp to #Signal, from #Instagram to #Pixelfed or from #X to #Mastodon) I made you some graphics to use freely in communicating with your contacts.

Let’s lead by example 🙂

Let's just be clear: #Telegram has proven that they'll gladly accommodate nation states and probably has been doing so for years.

To think that it is secure when all the content, all the messages, are actually available to the company - albeit dispersed across nation states - is false.

#Privacy is #security, full stop. You've got #Signal for IM, #Session as well, not to mention #Matrix for group chats and servers. All have actual, factual peer-to-peer encryption and obvious key systems.

A reminder for people who want to limit their #Meta intake:

#WhatsApp > #Signal (https://signal.org)
#Instagram > #Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org)
#Threads > #Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org)
#Facebook > #Friendica (https://friendi.ca), #Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org)