When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...
The threat model of military operations & sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability.
But I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.
Frédéric Jacobs
npub12y…0vrvk
2025-03-25 09:43:00 UTC
Author Public Key
npub12y3uyznz7wvsmyynagsnf3p3nzg8vx6g8ypqvh6sw88zxqgwhxdqu0vrvkSeen on
wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2025-03-25 09:43:00 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "1ceee7e5b6d6b4cb69cc59a8e2d67bc2f506a02de28796ec407db3ec8deddd4c",
"pubkey": "5123c20a62f3990d9093ea2134c4319890761b483902065f5071ce23010eb99a",
"created_at": 1742895780,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/@fj/114222417886694499",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/fj/statuses/114222417886694499",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mastodon.social/users/fj/statuses/114222417886694499",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...\n\nThe threat model of military operations \u0026 sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability. \nBut I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.",
"sig": "817ae182f71e9f810b13b9c70fc38f8b3562e747a8f2a998f4088e962df04cb41221b8ca0dc01d1f17c1beb9b123e21df3c4e167c8a8ad616e757a76edc64678"
}