Well, yes. By refusing to boot. It can’t do anything if motherboard is replaced.

Any “secure” so that relies on someone else for security is not secure.

Fuck the scope of E2EE.

When someone has FSB/NSA agent behind them reading messages, no amount of encryption will help. Biggest cybersecurity vulnreability is located between monitor and chair. When you are texting someone else, that someone else’s chair-monitor space is also vulnreable.

Signal makes a lot of claims on their website that are laughable.

Well, maybe. I didn’t read their claims, nor I use signal.

Attachments are stored unencrypted, keys in plaintext.

Is OS-level encryption plaintext or not? If yes, then they are encrypted, provided user enables such feature in OS. If not - nothing if encrypted fundamentally.

If they were serious about security, they would depricate the windows app and block it from their servers.

WTF does Apple have to do with anything?

You just used applefans’ argument. Yeah, I wonder what.

Looked into anarc blog. What there wss said about Matrix can be said about SMTP and probably XMPP. To do GDPR you need to know every server you have sent message to. And compared to IRC defaults(forward and remove) anything will look like GDPR nightmare. GDPR was not designed for federated(like matrix and activitypub) communications and especially wasn’t designed for peer-to-peer communications.

bonus points with a personal server

Only with appservices. Doesn’t make sense otherwise.

SSHwitcharoo

But, but, “just use disk encryption”. Just…no…WTF?

So not encrypting keys is bad, but actually encrypting them is bad too? Ok.

Any on of your recipients could be using the desktop app and there’s no way to know unless they tell you.

Another applefan? How it THIS supposed to be in scope of E2EE? Moreover, how having a way to know if recepient is using desktop app is not opposite of privacy?

On top of that, all messages filter through Signal’s servers, adding a single-point-of-failure to everything. Take away the servers, no more Signal.

Indeed. This is why I use Matrix. Also, fuck showing phone numbers to everyone(I heard they did something about it) and registration with phone numbers.

Signal data will be encrypted if your disk is also encrypted.

True.

and you don’t have any type of verified boot process

How motherboard refusing to boot from another drive would protect anything?

Causation was never stated nor implied

Therefore France is french righr out of box

Indeed, End-to-End Encryption protects data between those ends, not ends themselves. If ends are compromised, no math will help you.

lack encryption especially in the hands of a third party company managing your data

Are we still talking about local-only keys?

Or ext4 encrytion. Which is overpowered. You can have different keys for different files and directories.

AFAIK Android encrypts entire fs with one key. And ACL is not encryption.

for not even salting

Wrong secret

SSH has encrypted keys

You. Don’t. Store. Secrets. In. Plaintext.

Ok. Enter password at every launch.

Yes, but you STILL need to enter password on every reboot.

Secret service API. Damn. That’s how FSB knows what it knows.

Why not calculatePersonalIncomeTax123 then?

Hard disagree - that’s very helpful:

// Calculates Personal Income Tax by formula from section 1.2.3 of tax code. Other taxes like VAT are not calculated.
function calculateTax() { }