FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using to share information about federal immigration agents’ movements, launching a new front in the Trump administration’s conflict there with potential free speech implications.
Patel said in an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that he wanted to know whether any Minnesota residents had put federal agents “in harm’s way” with activities such as sharing agents’ license plate numbers and locations.
Good luck trying to decrypt the texts
They’re hoping to be add to the chat by error
I see. Hopefully the group catches news of this
Its already been infiltrated. Been having people harassing us all week. Some bootlicker on Twitter found the names of all the dispatchers in one of the rapid reaponse groups and submitted it to the FBI.
Fuck that shit
Signal is secure. The issue here is this was a public group chat that some assholes joined.
Then they better start anti canary trap flushes.
Don’t need to decrypt anything if someone gets caught with an easy phone unlock or flips. End to end means end to end. With the size of some of the groups and potential to infiltrate, I would assume that the comms are already compromised to one degree or another. If you get one of the ends, encryption means nothing. I bet kash’s FBI just doesn’t know who has it yet.
True. And your last point is notable. This leadership is ruthless but dumb as fuck.
The metadata alone can give them plenty
Metadata is encrypted on signal
You’re probably thinking of things like in-app metadata like message timestamps or internal signal protocol stuff or something… But that’s not what I’m referring to.
For example, Signal and whatsapp can leak device and app activity (which can be surprisingly serious given most mobile AFU vulnerabilities)
And as an example by comparison: Session et al have better anonymity and transit-metadata obfuscation
To further explain what i mean: the Katzenpost network is being developed with post-quantum encryption and puts strong emphasis on metadata security… The latter is a significantly more challenging problem than just sending encrypted packets.
Say the line Bart
Thank you for sharing that, I will read up on it