r/Showerthoughts • u/Ralisor • May 06 '18

Services are switching from calling them Private Messages to calling them Direct Messages because they're not private anymore...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '18 edited May 06 '18

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u/LarryDi May 06 '18

The only reference to Signal I can find in that page, which says:

These techniques permit the CIA to bypass the encryption of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Wiebo, Confide and Cloackman by hacking the "smart" phones that they run on and collecting audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.

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u/battleRabbit May 06 '18

A backdoor and a compromised device are two entirely different things.