Nah. Ru gov wants to ban it for a reason. Nothing is as secure as it seems. For example, whatsapp. Whatsapp (meta) started leaking convos of Russian soldiers to the Ukrainians and got alot of men killed. The Ru gov fears that might happen with signal
Remember, the feds still sued Apple for a similar thing so they would unlock a phone owned by a terrorist. After Apple won the case, the feds said "ok" and paid a hacker group to unlock it for them. They could always open it. It was just to make it easier in future.
It's just a tool. People can use it to make their children into childless screen zombies or to give them access to all the free knowledge and communication one could dream of. The choice is yours.
The government is comprised of pseudointellectual, stick-in-the-mud, D students who think they know better than most people. (They do not.) Their endless pursuit of more control is testament to how insecure they are in their intelligence and competence.
Being from Zürich I read Germany & UK put THOUSANDS of people behind bars or fined them for harmless social media comments, justified by "hate speech". Also as new parent, the new laws scare me. They take more & more rights from parents (see new US laws). Ill move to Belgrade next max 10 years. Big IT sector.
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@@sirrobinofloxley7156 Awesome. México is not a colony from the USA, they can make their own decisions
That's the thing; you're a resource of known quantity. Most people who are looking at this aren't; _those_ people - the people who trust your squadron would assist in protecting them and their country - are who your government does not, nor will ever, trust.
thats the exact purpose of a government only throught control can there be order and the fundamental reason governments exist is for the sake of attaining order
They already do. They stripped our right to privacy away years ago. Go outside in America at night when it is dark, look in the sky and just count the drones in the sky. There are roughly 6 of them within an area each night and they circle around CONSTANTLY. Big brother isn’t such a joke now..
It is. 10000%. I love America. But it is captured. We are watching the final- very last - moves to completely and fully capture America. It is already so much worse than you could imagine. There is virtually nothing left of the system meant to protect it, and the guards are running the prison
Right, until everybody come to use it, and then Signal will become the main data provider for the government, without anyone realizing it. They cannot attract flies with vinegar. Of course.
One thing on the bright side is that it would be a lot more of a challenge to ban Signal in the US since it’s by far the most commonly used text app for military communications
What? For military communications? I thought the military would use software and tech made by the military. To have full control over it, so they can monitor everything? Weird.
actually it is recommended by the military and by military i mean the tech side of the military because of its encryption but still use their own service for secret messages
They already did somewhat. If you use iOS you're an ad vector. They're an ad business they just hide it really well. It is the way of big tech. They all do this crap.
There are only 38 comments, not 1 bot comment except urs. I start to believe THIS is the actual bot. 1. Write comment about bot for 30 days & level trust by organic likes & comments 2. Rename into phone nr. 3. Start spaming
The only compromise I heard about, was when using push message notifications a correlation/timing attack could look for push messages arriving with the same timing as chat messages to unknown people in a group, and infer they were the same person. So turn off push notifications with all your messengers.
Yeah if they can detect a send message then they can look for a push notification from signal on an apple phone and they might find the guy its sent to
@@BladeSmith1928 notifications on iOS / Android are run over Apple / Google servers, so that not every application has to ping their own server. This means the device only needs to send a single request and can receive notifications, even if offline. If you were chatting with a honeypot for example, they could correlate multiple message timestamps in the chat with the corresponding notification on Apple / Google servers, which they will of course hand over.
There was also an issue with the call protocol in 2019 where you could force a receiver's phone to 'answer' a call without the user actually answering.
Russia/Venezuala don't need to use technical measures to block Signal. They simply tell their telecoms companies 'provide a list of all subscribers who received a text message with the words "Your signal confirmation code is...."' and then start breaking down doors until the message is received. Which is is it is utterly braindead for Signal to *still* require registration with a phone number.
First of all, Russia is more free than America and the UK! Those countries dragnet surveillance tower people’s privacy. And the UK and US (in a lesser extend) have thought policing. UK arrest the most people in the world for “wrong speech” online. Even “offensive posts” or remarks in public are a crime. Secondly the strings are not visible because it’s encrypted and it’s a peer to peer communication protocol, so they have no central servers that initiate communication. So this can’t be blocked. So good luck banning/blocking that, completely.
@@josephbrandenburg4373 I suspect that just like WhatsApp (facebook) is an open book to the NSA/CIA that Telegram is that to the Russian secret service. They are both open platforms that people share their deepest sentiments that they governments love to see. Hence I use signal! I don’t trust anything else.
I must say, the Mental Outlaw AI the feds used to make this video is pretty good. Very sad that the original Kenny is no longer with us after last video though.
The irony of this is the federal employees need signal...because we need a secure way to message people. The Air Force was heavily using signal for a while because it was secure.
Every political and authority figure should have all their communications monitored by the citizens they are supposed to work for. So we can make sure they aren’t corrupt and abusing power. Thats how this should work
At least the Feds know a little bit about online safety. The UK government, with their new Online Safety Bill, want to completely undo all semblance of online security by forcing OS providers to include subroutines that send everything (including your online banking details) in unencrypted form across the internet to centralised, unencrypted, hackable government servers before the data gets encrypted by the used app and sent to where it's intended for, under the claim that that makes the internet safer.
Just donated $20 to signal. Keep it up. I don't even have pre-shared keys with any of my contacts. I just like the app and the fact that they have a Linux client.
I really need to get my cloud city on Venus going for everyone, can't go anywhere on the planet without some corrupt fuck in some sort of position of human power screwing with everything
They'll only lose it because of fearmongering about "feds inciting to break the law" which barely ever happens and it's just a defeatist trope to justify doing nothing and feel good about it
My guess is that if the NSA had broken Signal we'd never know. If you really wanted to be safe you should send very sensitive messages as encrypted text within signal
If they never reveal that they've cracked it how is that practically any different than they haven't cracked it? They aren't gonna play the secret ace-up-their-sleeve just to bop some rando, are they?
@@josephbrandenburg4373 No, not to bop some rando. But for high priority instances Feds will "happen to get lucky" and generally maintain plausible deniability by claiming they got the information from someone else. And of course, the more information you have about the suspect the easier it is to create plausible narratives that didn't rely on cracking messages- someone was an informant "yeah he totally was our informant, here's his motive" etc etc.. Same thing happened with breaking the German's ENIGMA ciphers, it was never revealed until after the war and during the war allies were selective in acting on ENIGMA intelligence and in instances that were high priority or in which it could be plausible intelligence was otherwise. You do forfeit the ability to act consistently on this though.
We don't know if they cracked Signal, but we know they can compromise your phone. Signal is available on non-mobile apps too, probably the best way to use it.
the TLS proxy can actually freely sniff data with relative ease, anyone who points this out gets blocked so it seems Signal isnt interested in fixing it or talking about it. Be careful when you use it.
😂 The feds can’t stand not having back door access to everything. You can’t even buy a safe now without the feds demanding the manufacturers to give them a default code, or combination to get into them.
Around 5:50 he mentioned that Venezuela is blocking signal, Venezuela is blocking all social medias and streaming services too for some reason, I am from Venezuela and know people in there so that's how I know, just wanted to inform people in case it wasn't known
The things said about the internet shutdown in Iran are very true and how happy we are to hear this from an English-speaking RUclips channel. The news agencies here are all affiliated with the regime and none of this will be published. The speed of the tunnel cases, including most of the VPN protocols, has been slowed down so much that it can be said to be completely unusable, but Iran labels this as no, some protocols are not yet filtered.
@@monkemode8128 - That was a bad move removing SMS, they lost the majority of their users. Sure the SMS part wasn't secure, but the whole world ain't using Signal either. smh
I saw in the news that some of the protestors have had to take over traffic controls because police are being cowards there. Y'all did something huge. I wish you all the greatest success in moving forward after the protests. I hope to see Bangladesh thrive in the future.
Threema or Protonmail: my friend served in the Swiss army where they now use Threema. We can say the self hosted variant (can be bought) is super safe. Normal version is +- just as safe. Army obv. wants full control. Threema, unlike Protonmail, never provided anything more than few words of anonymous meta data. Mail & Chat have different laws in Switzerland.
I think that if you register yourself in a random email provider from people who offers email service and start using PGP will be more anonymous than using an email provider from a big company that is easily targeted by the government
I saw a twitter thread talking about signal promoting the use of proxies between users, which were mostly just docker images, vulnerable to many known and discussed (but not fixed) issues. I'll try to look up the link and put it in the replies.
@@atl6s If they actually routed traffic and encrypted it like Tor that would be useful. However, a better solution would be to just use Signal anonymously with Tor, that's the kind of thing it's made for.
adding a Bluetooth based network Protocoll for signal as alternative like briar could be a nice way to still comunicate when internet is down if one device is maybe in the neighboor country and is relaying the data from the Bluetooth mesh, signal is kinda popular enough to make such a think work near a border.
@@avisprimey I mean sure, it's not quite as secure as tls but you could one time pad or use pre distributed phrases/codes. It'd basically plain text in open air, so you'd follow the same procedure as ham or number station.
To imply the US is a free country is laughable. "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners." - Vladimir Lenin
One thing you got wrong- the fact that phone numbers could be linked to Signal accounts in Signal's database in the past. Those numbers could have been essentially private keys that unlocked public accounts. One could brute force thousands of numbers to get those accounts, in theory. If this likely scenario were the case, by no means would Signal have records.
With the timestamp, they can narrow down and retrieve the packets that were sent around that time to/from signal's servers. Then they can use their NSA backdoors to decrypt it. Or something.
bro... That's the smartest way to make people download app they didn't heard before. When you said it was banned in Russia I thought to myself: "wait? Is it really banned here?" and downloaded it both on my pc and mobile. Now I am using it along telegram and whatsapp lol.
Now you know why I have big grug against companies that have emails that want your number, and people think I am crazy when I say don't want my cell number connected to my email, but no convenience is more important.
4:05 Law Enforcement was just fishing for information on random phone numbers. It's typical of them because we aren't working with the sharpest tools in the shed and they just want Signal (or whoever is given the warrant) to do the work for them.
If I were the Feds, I’d never admit to cracking Signal. I’d let people think it’s secure and use videos like this to keep the illusion going…just saying.
I think Element/Matrix is great! However it's not as "User Friendly" as alternatives, and thus there's not as many active users on homeservers for example, compared to others.
Remember, the only way they're getting the contents of those messages is if they're getting access to your phone. In the US, what that means is if they can't unlock your phone with biometrics … they can't get in without a warrant and anything they find if they DO get in without a warrant, your lawyer can get it tossed. That's not gonna help you in Russia or whatever, but … if you're in Russia, merely getting to the point the police HAVE your phone means something not fun is probably going to happen to you.
Why such assumptions? Law enforcement works similar way in Russia to how it works in USA. Police can not just take your phone and hack it or demand your password without warrant if you are not suspected in anything serious. Moreover, I am grateful that we have such police here, it is simply safer thanks to them
Nah, it's not that bad in Russia, unless you got detained on a rally or, sometimes, when crossing the border. But, let's be honest, you should be braindead to not prepare a second "normie mode" phone for these situations, be it in Russia or the US. In Belarus, on the other hand... I heard some regular people got fined and their phones confiscated forever for just having a VPN app.
In Bangladesh, the internet was shut down for almost a week, during the Quota reform protest in July 2024, which eventually turned into an anti-government movement. Just the ISPs had the whole connection between them. We felt a need for a Signal-like app, which'll be able to communicate like Signal, without a need to connect to the main Signal servers. The servers will be hosted on the local internet so that messages can be sent/received through those servers.
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Well Signal is doing the right thing. Unlike Liberty Safe giving out the combinations for all its customers to LEO'S. And yes Liberty Safes customers are law abiding 2A citizens that own gun safes.
Sending PGP messages over signal might be a good way to add an additional layer of security in case alphabet agencies are doing the big funny of “oy vey, we took such a big L, please don’t use this since we can’t monitor your messages” or something along those lines
Tucker carlson had his signal messages read by the NSA when trying to communicate a putin meet up. The software is also closed source, and requires a phone number i don't buy any of this.
I get why the FBI is angry at privacy based systems, because criminals use them and usually it is harder to track them. But oof FBI is trying its hardest 😂
Signal is open source so there are people combing through there for bugs. It does what it says client-side, and if it's doing what it says client-side, it is likely secure (we can't prove what is happening to the server, but we can prove that the server only receives encrypted messages with the decryption keys not sent to the server). If there was a backdoor in the protocol itself or the code which implements it, it'd have to be resistant to researchers being able to read the code of the backdoor and still not notice it's a backdoor. If the encryption itself was broken, that's a whole other story. That being said "someone is looking" has proven to problematic with other open-source software, it's true that anyone can look, it doesn't matter unless they actually look, are skilled enough/paying enough attention to see the problems, and they report and/or fix them. There have been some bugs/vulnerabilities discovered in major open-source projects before (and it will continue).
Company: Actually makes privacy based system, unwilling to compromise
Feds: "FUCK YOU"
Lel all ghe "privacy systems" end up leaking info when it suits their purposes. Dont trust it one bit
yep
Because crimes are committed duh they need access.
@HPLovesCraftsCat bro what is that pfp?
What if feds are just pretending and they actually have backdoor there to lure in unsuspecting people
This is an official stamp of quality for Signal. Big W.
Nah. Ru gov wants to ban it for a reason. Nothing is as secure as it seems. For example, whatsapp. Whatsapp (meta) started leaking convos of Russian soldiers to the Ukrainians and got alot of men killed. The Ru gov fears that might happen with signal
Remember, the feds still sued Apple for a similar thing so they would unlock a phone owned by a terrorist.
After Apple won the case, the feds said "ok" and paid a hacker group to unlock it for them. They could always open it. It was just to make it easier in future.
No better words lol
Or its reverse psychology....
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they're not spying.
Proves it works just like how they try and ban XMR
total internet shutdown happened (for 5 days) in Bangladesh during student-protest. that's how much they fear the freedom internet
There VPN and TOR must be obligatory
@@lussor1you cant use vpn id theres no internet at all
@@David280GG Yeah, my man talking about using the vacuum when it's unplugged.
lol what a loser your government is
Tor has been compromised for a long time now and vpn doesn't make you anonymous.
Until this day, the government regrets letting civilians have access to Internet.
'The' government? Which one?
It's just a tool. People can use it to make their children into childless screen zombies or to give them access to all the free knowledge and communication one could dream of. The choice is yours.
I think they´d be much worse off if everybody would still rely on carrier pigeons.
@@TheYeetedMeatthe shadow government
The government is comprised of pseudointellectual, stick-in-the-mud, D students who think they know better than most people. (They do not.) Their endless pursuit of more control is testament to how insecure they are in their intelligence and competence.
Government: "you should be secure and safe"
Also government: "NO NOT LIKE THAT!"
Exactly!
meanwhile the feds 👁️🗨️
Secured from our rights
more like "NO NOT FROM US"
JAMAICA ❤️ 🇯🇲
Also Russia started blocking Signal in the beginning of August
That's very хуёво, my friend. I actually wanted my government to use that shit for communications😂
Ah yes, totally different governments mmmkay :^)
New Mexican President just invited Putin to her inauguration...
Being from Zürich I read Germany & UK put THOUSANDS of people behind bars or fined them for harmless social media comments, justified by "hate speech". Also as new parent, the new laws scare me. They take more & more rights from parents (see new US laws). Ill move to Belgrade next max 10 years. Big IT sector.
@@sirrobinofloxley7156 Awesome. México is not a colony from the USA, they can make their own decisions
When you said "Feds banned it" I became afraid Signal was blocked in the USA. I was very depressed.
I literally got a message notification on signal as soon as I clicked this video 😂
Imagine living in a country where this actually happened? Crazy, right? Good thing America is only real country
Clickbait-ish title
Only a matter of time until it’s deemed a “national security risk”
Don't worry, they report everything 3-letter agencies want voluntary.
>feds ask details in human readable form
>give them unix times
>feds ask details in unix time
>give them human readable form
what absolute trolls
I still remember that video ;-)
Don't get it
@@DarukiNeo-il2jt That's one of his previous videos (a few years ago) when feds asked some info on someone and got just timestamps in UNIX format xD
We literally used it overseas when I was deployed. Our unit explicitly said to use signal because it was secure. What the fuck lmao
That's the thing; you're a resource of known quantity. Most people who are looking at this aren't; _those_ people - the people who trust your squadron would assist in protecting them and their country - are who your government does not, nor will ever, trust.
Remember, it's California that's asking for this stuff. The state whose senator clearly is a big fan of Xi ji ping and the CCP
Ok? What does that have to do with the video?
@@johngojcevic8731he’s talking about using signal, the topic of the video you useless waste of oxygen
@@johngojcevic8731 Not all commentary has to be about _exactly_ about the video, silly billy.
They just can't stand not having absolute power over everyone and everything all the time.
"Tough!"
thats the exact purpose of a government
only throught control can there be order and the fundamental reason governments exist is for the sake of attaining order
Yeah but they use it themselves as well
Encrypted data should fall under Fifth Amendment protection. The only response to a subpoena for it should be a raised middle finger.
Literally this. It’s painfully obvious someone is corrupting the government to enforce a dictator police state if they want encrypted messages.
that's not going to happen though
Fifth or fourth?
@@Ted_II Fifth. Fourth is already a given but can be overridden by a warrant. The Fifth is never invalidated.
@@raiisleep Well we're gonna have to wait and see ja?
If we do not fight for our privacy now, they will know everything we do on a daily basis.
And most of us are probably gonna end up on a watchlist
They already do. They stripped our right to privacy away years ago. Go outside in America at night when it is dark, look in the sky and just count the drones in the sky. There are roughly 6 of them within an area each night and they circle around CONSTANTLY. Big brother isn’t such a joke now..
they already do know 99% of the stuff we search watch and things like that
@@x1ctt So we're totally screwed aren't we??
@@usr808If you're not already on a watchlist, are you even an American? (Or a Brit, apparently.)
Man it's difficult not to see the government as a hostile entity at this point
They have a lot of power. Except during elections. That's when they start to get all fluffy with us
Trump did the most to take our privacy and set people up
It is. 10000%. I love America. But it is captured. We are watching the final- very last - moves to completely and fully capture America. It is already so much worse than you could imagine. There is virtually nothing left of the system meant to protect it, and the guards are running the prison
Since the beginning it would seem
Never been anything else..."Govern" = Control.
feds huffing copium currently
They've been huffing it for a while, now they are mainlining it.
FBI: Feral Black Instigators
@@thetechfromheavenBut that's not who they investigate, that's who they instigate....
@@steyraug96 you clearly don't know what a "Glowie" is.
@@thetechfromheaven I just figure we're at the point where patriots and Glowies become impossible to tell apart.
You can't vote your way out...
I've not used Signal even once, but now they have my attention
yeah it kind of seems like a good alternative to discord if you just want to talk to people you're closer with
Right, until everybody come to use it, and then Signal will become the main data provider for the government, without anyone realizing it.
They cannot attract flies with vinegar. Of course.
i haven't even heard of it
One thing on the bright side is that it would be a lot more of a challenge to ban Signal in the US since it’s by far the most commonly used text app for military communications
They'll just treat it like machine guns: the state can have it, but nobody else will be allowed.
What? For military communications? I thought the military would use software and tech made by the military. To have full control over it, so they can monitor everything?
Weird.
actually it is recommended by the military and by military i mean the tech side of the military because of its encryption but still use their own service for secret messages
I know for sure it's used instead of radios in a few places.
I wonder why that is?
Apple is totally one of those companies I could see making their own Applenet where they control everything.
All of the big tech companies use botnets on a regular basis
ok, bot.
@@JimboJuice Tf is ur channel
They already did somewhat. If you use iOS you're an ad vector. They're an ad business they just hide it really well.
It is the way of big tech. They all do this crap.
@@JimboJuice one of the more baffling channels ive seen on this site... keep it up!
not even one minute and the bots are here, dead internet theory is real
Real
No mention of how how the feds put 40-50m into Signal via the OTF or how ACTUALsecurity officials have warned against it for many years now. sus huh.
They're bots, what do you expect?
There are only 38 comments, not 1 bot comment except urs. I start to believe THIS is the actual bot. 1. Write comment about bot for 30 days & level trust by organic likes & comments 2. Rename into phone nr. 3. Start spaming
@@nemiw4429 Shut up bot
Best ad for Signal I've seen yet.
The only compromise I heard about, was when using push message notifications a correlation/timing attack could look for push messages arriving with the same timing as chat messages to unknown people in a group, and infer they were the same person. So turn off push notifications with all your messengers.
hol up, elaborate? I thought you were a bot but that bit at the end caught my eye. timing attack? push notifications?
Yeah if they can detect a send message then they can look for a push notification from signal on an apple phone and they might find the guy its sent to
the internet isn't dead!
@@BladeSmith1928 notifications on iOS / Android are run over Apple / Google servers, so that not every application has to ping their own server. This means the device only needs to send a single request and can receive notifications, even if offline. If you were chatting with a honeypot for example, they could correlate multiple message timestamps in the chat with the corresponding notification on Apple / Google servers, which they will of course hand over.
There was also an issue with the call protocol in 2019 where you could force a receiver's phone to 'answer' a call without the user actually answering.
Russia/Venezuala don't need to use technical measures to block Signal. They simply tell their telecoms companies 'provide a list of all subscribers who received a text message with the words "Your signal confirmation code is...."' and then start breaking down doors until the message is received. Which is is it is utterly braindead for Signal to *still* require registration with a phone number.
First of all, Russia is more free than America and the UK! Those countries dragnet surveillance tower people’s privacy. And the UK and US (in a lesser extend) have thought policing. UK arrest the most people in the world for “wrong speech” online.
Even “offensive posts” or remarks in public are a crime.
Secondly the strings are not visible because it’s encrypted and it’s a peer to peer communication protocol, so they have no central servers that initiate communication. So this can’t be blocked. So good luck banning/blocking that, completely.
I wonder how Telegram avoids getting the same treatment by Russian government?
@@CallousCoder I invite you to live in russia.
By logging everything @@josephbrandenburg4373
@@josephbrandenburg4373 I suspect that just like WhatsApp (facebook) is an open book to the NSA/CIA that Telegram is that to the Russian secret service.
They are both open platforms that people share their deepest sentiments that they governments love to see.
Hence I use signal! I don’t trust anything else.
I must say, the Mental Outlaw AI the feds used to make this video is pretty good. Very sad that the original Kenny is no longer with us after last video though.
A tragedy indeed.
o_O Hhhhhmmmmmmm.......
Yeh the whole cabbage thing just went out of hand...Sad to see, really.
@@yosutzuhruoj what cabbage thing, I don't get it.
@@christeanazaang the avatar destroyed his cabbages, and he unfortunately disappeared shortly after
Me looking at this vídeo from Venezuela: 👁️ 👄 👁️
You think the CIA doesn't use signal?
Impossible, banned!
La vaina ta jodia mano
What does rat meat taste like?
get out of there ASAP
The irony of this is the federal employees need signal...because we need a secure way to message people. The Air Force was heavily using signal for a while because it was secure.
Your info is just as worthless as everyone else.
Every political and authority figure should have all their communications monitored by the citizens they are supposed to work for. So we can make sure they aren’t corrupt and abusing power. Thats how this should work
Super Mayor hates allazations and rejects your idea.
I used to live in SCC. Law enforcement is particularly intrusive
well they gotta do their job innit
I'm shocked that they actually are doing their job considering how the bay area is dump hole
@Hairybarryy aren't their hands tied by the politicians? Coming from someone who lives in the Midwest lol
Well yeah, all the major tech firms are there. Couldn't pay me to live there.
What's a jilf
The feds want data that was never collected and stored on a server with a default password 💀
At least the Feds know a little bit about online safety. The UK government, with their new Online Safety Bill, want to completely undo all semblance of online security by forcing OS providers to include subroutines that send everything (including your online banking details) in unencrypted form across the internet to centralised, unencrypted, hackable government servers before the data gets encrypted by the used app and sent to where it's intended for, under the claim that that makes the internet safer.
Just donated $20 to signal. Keep it up. I don't even have pre-shared keys with any of my contacts. I just like the app and the fact that they have a Linux client.
I'm honestly scared people are going to lose the privacy fight against government.
it was lost 100 years ago, time to catch up
I really need to get my cloud city on Venus going for everyone, can't go anywhere on the planet without some corrupt fuck in some sort of position of human power screwing with everything
Probably will in the UK
They'll only lose it because of fearmongering about "feds inciting to break the law" which barely ever happens and it's just a defeatist trope to justify doing nothing and feel good about it
No more hiding, the elites said, and it was the final order that was followed. They came out, resources at the ready, the biggest backfire.
the feds are always the best ads for good privacy software
Iran is almost blocked all social media! I have to use self-hosted VPN for almost every IT related thing!
btw very nice channel
My guess is that if the NSA had broken Signal we'd never know. If you really wanted to be safe you should send very sensitive messages as encrypted text within signal
If they never reveal that they've cracked it how is that practically any different than they haven't cracked it? They aren't gonna play the secret ace-up-their-sleeve just to bop some rando, are they?
@@josephbrandenburg4373 No, not to bop some rando. But for high priority instances Feds will "happen to get lucky" and generally maintain plausible deniability by claiming they got the information from someone else. And of course, the more information you have about the suspect the easier it is to create plausible narratives that didn't rely on cracking messages- someone was an informant "yeah he totally was our informant, here's his motive" etc etc.. Same thing happened with breaking the German's ENIGMA ciphers, it was never revealed until after the war and during the war allies were selective in acting on ENIGMA intelligence and in instances that were high priority or in which it could be plausible intelligence was otherwise. You do forfeit the ability to act consistently on this though.
We don't know if they cracked Signal, but we know they can compromise your phone.
Signal is available on non-mobile apps too, probably the best way to use it.
@@Livity. Agreed. Of course also not doing seriously bad stuff probably makes your phone being compromised less likely
the TLS proxy can actually freely sniff data with relative ease, anyone who points this out gets blocked so it seems Signal isnt interested in fixing it or talking about it. Be careful when you use it.
😂 The feds can’t stand not having back door access to everything. You can’t even buy a safe now without the feds demanding the manufacturers to give them a default code, or combination to get into them.
Around 5:50 he mentioned that Venezuela is blocking signal, Venezuela is blocking all social medias and streaming services too for some reason, I am from Venezuela and know people in there so that's how I know, just wanted to inform people in case it wasn't known
That must be so frustrating for you and yours. I'm really sorry to hear that.
Cap
they are blocking it so it cant be used to overthrow the gvt
thats what "social media" was invented for by the US military
aren't they also sending people who talk about the situation to torture camps?
Van a borrar el "guasap" ☹️
The things said about the internet shutdown in Iran are very true and how happy we are to hear this from an English-speaking RUclips channel. The news agencies here are all affiliated with the regime and none of this will be published.
The speed of the tunnel cases, including most of the VPN protocols, has been slowed down so much that it can be said to be completely unusable, but Iran labels this as no, some protocols are not yet filtered.
This is the best endorsement for Signal there could ever be.
Signal is awesome. Been using it as my normal messenger for years.
I did until they removed SMS support.
@@monkemode8128 Because SMS isn't secure and can't be secure. Among a laundry lists of other reasons.
@@monkemode8128 - That was a bad move removing SMS, they lost the majority of their users. Sure the SMS part wasn't secure, but the whole world ain't using Signal either. smh
I like Signal. But my messenger of choice is Element. Unlike Singal, you don't need a phone number. It's a bit harder to set up then Signal though.
@@gogista You don't need a phone number for signal anymore. it was changed like a year ago
I suspect the reasom Signal gave it in a human-readable format is Unix Miliseconds is no fun when the feds already expect it.
They should compile a list of random obscure time formats, and constantly switch between them to fuck with the feds
07:30 Shut down whole internet 😢 we suffered this few weeks ago for 5 days in Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Scary stuff
I saw in the news that some of the protestors have had to take over traffic controls because police are being cowards there. Y'all did something huge. I wish you all the greatest success in moving forward after the protests. I hope to see Bangladesh thrive in the future.
Only way to stop CIA protest tbh
@@2rx_bni They already got a pro west leader. "Great stuff" indeed
Government can’t handle criticism and truth so must use dictator measures.
"There is no war in Ba Sing Se"
Honestly been feeling this way a lot lately. Is there a war in ba sing se?
There is no war in Puh Lê Su Tin and Yu Khu Ren.
this echoes so much lmrofl, just seen this reference irl about ancient china in TIL red2it
Threema or Protonmail: my friend served in the Swiss army where they now use Threema. We can say the self hosted variant (can be bought) is super safe. Normal version is +- just as safe. Army obv. wants full control. Threema, unlike Protonmail, never provided anything more than few words of anonymous meta data. Mail & Chat have different laws in Switzerland.
Stabil. Lueg ich mir ah.
Wouldnt trust the swiss anymore. Thry arent neutral any longer
Threema ? Self hosted mail ?
Threema has shit security, Proton does work with law enforcement. Bad suggestions.
I think that if you register yourself in a random email provider from people who offers email service and start using PGP will be more anonymous than using an email provider from a big company that is easily targeted by the government
Dislikes are fed and other 3 letter boi's.
Other way around
Theu hire trolls to send out thousands of bots to do that work.
@@makodaniel4885 Are you a bot?
USA?
So you dislike the feds, huh? Great!! Now you're part of MKUltra 2.0
This was the ad I needed for Signal.
I saw a twitter thread talking about signal promoting the use of proxies between users, which were mostly just docker images, vulnerable to many known and discussed (but not fixed) issues. I'll try to look up the link and put it in the replies.
saw this too, the idea is similar to tor relay nodes but this thread was confident that it could be mitm'd much more easily
@@atl6s If they actually routed traffic and encrypted it like Tor that would be useful. However, a better solution would be to just use Signal anonymously with Tor, that's the kind of thing it's made for.
@@atl6s It can yeah but they block those who mention it and close the issues, its been known for a while.
As usual their c-suite continue to be jokes which is why I gave up using it and just don't talk about private shit online anymore.
Yeah ,good luck with that. Unless you're a spambot or a fed any comment containing a link will get auto-deleted upon hitting "send"
God, fucking Signal is a chad of an app
I believe they’re a Chad but they are owned by the deep state and deep shadow state man from statefarm owns 90% of all foreskins and stuff
This is why i show allegiance and loyalty to on one but my family and best friends
After being screwed over by both family and friends, I warn you to show loyalty to no one
@@TheNewRobotMaster what about my dog
@@TheNewRobotMaster true friends and real family never turn their backs on you
@@Shadeamous true family is a rare occurrence these days.
@@Shadeamous The worst thing about betrayal is that it never comes from enemies.
adding a Bluetooth based network Protocoll for signal as alternative like briar could be a nice way to still comunicate when internet is down if one device is maybe in the neighboor country and is relaying the data from the Bluetooth mesh, signal is kinda popular enough to make such a think work near a border.
Because low bandwidth is better than zero bandwidth.
@@hanelyp1 Especially if your messages are lightweight, like as in plain text
Or Lora through serial connection
@@jjones503 Glad I'm not the only one who's thought of this, but we'd need to implement a better security standard for it
@@avisprimey I mean sure, it's not quite as secure as tls but you could one time pad or use pre distributed phrases/codes. It'd basically plain text in open air, so you'd follow the same procedure as ham or number station.
If it's a tool that can be used for bad, it's always evil and must be banned... for our safety, of course.
Same logic should also aply to Government and Law Enforcement agencies.
"Think of the children!"
It is like saying a kitchen knife should not be allowed because it can hurt somebody.
Speedrunning the most banned messaging app in the world lol
I open signal:"this app expires today"...yeah right 😂
Santa Clara sure loves their subpoenas! Can't believe they still haven't figured out Signal's data limits.
bot
get a job bum
Imagine buying bot subs dear "Smart Gadgets Werehouse"
stfu I see you everywhere and I don't care if you're not a bot, you're the owner of someone else's fame.
@@lussor1 Thanks for this, it helps our cause to put an original name to the channel, letting these cowards know we don't forget.
To imply the US is a free country is laughable.
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
- Vladimir Lenin
One thing you got wrong- the fact that phone numbers could be linked to Signal accounts in Signal's database in the past. Those numbers could have been essentially private keys that unlocked public accounts.
One could brute force thousands of numbers to get those accounts, in theory.
If this likely scenario were the case, by no means would Signal have records.
the free flow of information is not to be underestimated. They fear it.
Its all fun and games until the NSA pulls out the hardware backdoor in your actual device and circumvents ALL encryption and security.
"Why does big tech have such a huge monopoly? The government should regulate it!"
Feds: "Say no more!"
Me looking this video from Russia: 🕊️
Grammar checks out
I was born in 6 months. (six months in the womb).
@@monday586 he talks in your language bro.
Привет русский друг!
👋 from USA
God bless your soul dear comrade, you don't deserve to be in a country at war, and I hope things get better for everyone 🇷🇺💔
Signal is so fucking based just wish more people actually used it here
Rebel and go against the grain !!
Wow that’s some great advertising!!!! Now I’m considering setting up a signal account
With the timestamp, they can narrow down and retrieve the packets that were sent around that time to/from signal's servers. Then they can use their NSA backdoors to decrypt it. Or something.
Everything glows...
imagine living in california
*Closes eyes*
*Imagines only 8 bullets in gun inside waistband*
No thanks!
imagine being poor
@@spicychad55 Yeah, poor Californians.
bro... That's the smartest way to make people download app they didn't heard before. When you said it was banned in Russia I thought to myself: "wait? Is it really banned here?" and downloaded it both on my pc and mobile. Now I am using it along telegram and whatsapp lol.
#privacy is not a crime
If the feds cant crack it...I want it!
So they store the phone number and can associate it to an account? Great...
Now you know why I have big grug against companies that have emails that want your number, and people think I am crazy when I say don't want my cell number connected to my email, but no convenience is more important.
@@freedomdude5420 more and more im starting to think signal is being used as the controlled opposition. Maybe im just paranoid.
@@kcnl2522 I forgot, what is control opposition.
MO is glowing and baiting us into thinking its safe
Signal is based out of San Francisco and their only bare metal data centers are in Santa Clara California.
Respect to the community that setups all those proxies!
Thanks for the news!
You just informed me. I got the app. I don't know shit, but if it irritates governments, I am in.
Heck yeah, that's the attitude we look for around here
I was gonna like your comment until I saw your profile
@@blubaylon What's wrong with the profile?
@@avisprimey There's nothing in my profile. Just my name and avatar. No descriptions, no links, no videos nothing.
@@blubaylon it's literally just a snake whats the fuss about?
That's insane
Signal: *is uncrackable*
the feds: ok *bans it*
Was experiencing issues with signal, but wasn't aware about block at all lol. Thanks for heads up on workaround 👍
4:05 Law Enforcement was just fishing for information on random phone numbers. It's typical of them because we aren't working with the sharpest tools in the shed and they just want Signal (or whoever is given the warrant) to do the work for them.
If I were the Feds, I’d never admit to cracking Signal. I’d let people think it’s secure and use videos like this to keep the illusion going…just saying.
what about element? deep dive on this? matrix server vs private. much appreciated
I think Element/Matrix is great! However it's not as "User Friendly" as alternatives, and thus there's not as many active users on homeservers for example, compared to others.
@@FrederickTheAnon14W Skill issue.
@@heroslippy6666No. People want something that just works ootb instead of tinkering to make it work.
Remember, the only way they're getting the contents of those messages is if they're getting access to your phone. In the US, what that means is if they can't unlock your phone with biometrics … they can't get in without a warrant and anything they find if they DO get in without a warrant, your lawyer can get it tossed.
That's not gonna help you in Russia or whatever, but … if you're in Russia, merely getting to the point the police HAVE your phone means something not fun is probably going to happen to you.
Why such assumptions? Law enforcement works similar way in Russia to how it works in USA. Police can not just take your phone and hack it or demand your password without warrant if you are not suspected in anything serious. Moreover, I am grateful that we have such police here, it is simply safer thanks to them
Yeah, we have saying "seating on a bottle" for a reason in context of "law" enforcement
Nah, it's not that bad in Russia, unless you got detained on a rally or, sometimes, when crossing the border. But, let's be honest, you should be braindead to not prepare a second "normie mode" phone for these situations, be it in Russia or the US.
In Belarus, on the other hand... I heard some regular people got fined and their phones confiscated forever for just having a VPN app.
People have to understand how important this is
In Bangladesh, the internet was shut down for almost a week, during the Quota reform protest in July 2024, which eventually turned into an anti-government movement. Just the ISPs had the whole connection between them. We felt a need for a Signal-like app, which'll be able to communicate like Signal, without a need to connect to the main Signal servers. The servers will be hosted on the local internet so that messages can be sent/received through those servers.
What if timestamps *were* actually useful to them? What if they record so much raw data they could actually reduce the sample size around a date?
Then again, if you're off to commit a crime and have your phone on you, well, good luck.
Ain't not way (I'm a bot)
Bot detected (im a bot)
Patriots in the UK need this rn
those dipshits can barely operate facebook. or a computer.
Real
You mean racists
The army already use it lol
babe wake up new ad for signal just dropped
*Signal ROCKS!*
Best app ever to FTP bigtime.
I LOVE IT!!!
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She's often interacts on Telegrams, using the user-name.
@Lindawilburn
Always backup your trading with a good strategy.
When it comes to investing, we want our money to grow with the highest rates of return, and the lowest risk possible. While there are no shortcuts to getting rich, but there are smart ways to go about it.
It doesn't matter if you are a current hodler or a newbie, you can capitalize on the fluctuation of bitcoin by trading with good strategy/signals.
Also Russia started slowing down RUclips
+ You can't earn money from RUclips if you live in Russia
@@Dara-wk5ty it's done by RUclips
no one i know uses signal so i just deleted it
yeah same. everybody I message regularly only uses standard text messaging.....
Same, and noone even cares about switching.
What they can't control, they condemn.
Well Signal is doing the right thing. Unlike Liberty Safe giving out the combinations for all its customers to LEO'S. And yes Liberty Safes customers are law abiding 2A citizens that own gun safes.
Sending PGP messages over signal might be a good way to add an additional layer of security in case alphabet agencies are doing the big funny of “oy vey, we took such a big L, please don’t use this since we can’t monitor your messages” or something along those lines
Tucker carlson had his signal messages read by the NSA when trying to communicate a putin meet up. The software is also closed source, and requires a phone number i don't buy any of this.
what are you talking about? Signal is completely open source, on github...
I get why the FBI is angry at privacy based systems, because criminals use them and usually it is harder to track them. But oof FBI is trying its hardest 😂
Feels good getting a W for once when it comes to privacy
The censorship circumvention thing is such a good idea that I wish more apps implemented
They couldn't ban TikTok, but they banned Signal!? Our world is so corrupt
Pee pee poo poo
You make a good point
what if signal is a honeypot and they just pushing this to hype people into using signal 🤔
ok fed
Signal is open source so there are people combing through there for bugs. It does what it says client-side, and if it's doing what it says client-side, it is likely secure (we can't prove what is happening to the server, but we can prove that the server only receives encrypted messages with the decryption keys not sent to the server). If there was a backdoor in the protocol itself or the code which implements it, it'd have to be resistant to researchers being able to read the code of the backdoor and still not notice it's a backdoor. If the encryption itself was broken, that's a whole other story.
That being said "someone is looking" has proven to problematic with other open-source software, it's true that anyone can look, it doesn't matter unless they actually look, are skilled enough/paying enough attention to see the problems, and they report and/or fix them. There have been some bugs/vulnerabilities discovered in major open-source projects before (and it will continue).
@@monkemode8128 interesting... thanks for the info
Government overstepping its bounds
Countries blocking signal is actually great marketing for the privacy they are offering