• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    What exactly is the cooperation that Signal was doing beforehand? Signal claims to collect very little data so I’m not sure how exactly they help?

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      3 days ago

      Russia was caught running a bunch of side channel and phishing attacks using malicious QR codes. Presumably signal could help track these patterns in terms of time and place, to help isolate where espionage activity was occuring.

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      2 days ago

      so I’m not sure how exactly they help?

      I would say yes, that you are not sure how exactly they help, if I’m answering your question as written.