US officials urge citizens to use encrypted messaging and calls wherever they can—here’s what you need to know.
  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    171·
    6 days ago

    I’m 100% not one of those “I have nothing to hide” people, but I don’t text about “things I want to hide” already FFS. In this case if the chinese gov or us gov really want to know about my plan to go get a costco hotdog with my friend later, fine, I don’t like it but also “whatever.” It’s not like I’m texting about federal crimes or government secrets, that’s what Matrix is for.

    The only thing I don’t like is being forced to use texts for 2fa on shit websites that won’t except a yubikey (or flipper0-u2f, in my case) which seems to be most sites using 2fa ime.

    • oatscoop@midwest.social
      111·
      6 days ago

      “I have nothing to hide, I just question your judgement and motives.”

      In a world entirely populated by empathetic, decent, and sane people we wouldn’t need much privacy. Unfortunately that’s not the world we live in. There are countless unstable, stupid, and evil people in the world – some of them are in positions of power or might achieve power in the future. They are absolutely the sort to weaponize “harmless” information against you.

      Do you want those people to know your sexual preferences, political leanings, etc?

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        6 days ago

        That’s the thing, I don’t really text about that stuff because texting is inherently insecure. Hell I’d sooner email about it if I can get someone set up with pgp than text, and email is insecure too.

        But until someone can convince my mom, dad, aunt, job, etc to use Matrix, I’ll always have to use SMS in some capacity. I hope someone can, I’ve tried to no avail. I was close with a few using Signal but with the removal of sms support they stopped, and the iPhone ones barely used it a week before switching back because “they don’t want to have to use two apps” even before that because they still had to use imessage to talk to most of their contacts.

        So yeah, I’m left with “don’t text about sensitive subjects.”

  • AnneVolin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    71·
    5 days ago

    US 2010: “We’ve created and incentivised this gigantic drag net of information based on insecure protocols, private partnership deals, FISA court orders, and outright black budget illegality”

    US 2024: “Pweeze use encrypted communication (that we have vendor relations with or that we have backdoors in or that we built as a honey pot) because China can see what’s happening in the drag net and they can leverage that information to compromise our idiot elites.”

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
    15·
    6 days ago

    The mobile standard setter, GSMA, and Google have said encryption will be coming to RCS, but there’s no firm date yet.

    GSMA, please don’t come up with yet another poorly designed encryption standard.

    The IETF is already working on Messaging Layer Security (MLS), please work with IETF and adopt MLS. IETF have more experience and do a good job at designing secure protocols. And multiple organisations and services are already working on adapting MLS (Mozilla, Google, Matrix, Wire, …)

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    7 days ago

    If cyberterrorists really want to know who’s gonna be late to my D&D game and what food we’re having, I guess there’s no way we’re gonna stop 'em. I blame Kamala’s weak campaign.

  • dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 days ago

    I wonder what they would be saying if they’d been allowed to weaken encryption and back-door the fuck out of everything before the Salt Typhoon folks got involved.

  • Matt@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 days ago

    AFAIK more people in the US use iPhones than Androids, but that is taken care of since iMessage is encrypted (correct me on this, I haven’t sent an iMessage to anyone since I got my SM-A536B).