#signal — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #signal, aggregated by home.social.
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Signal annuncia il supporto per Linux ARM64 in beta 🐧
Con l'espansione del supporto per Linux, Signal rende l'app più ampiamente accessibile.
https://aboutsignal.com/it/notizie/signal-annuncia-il-supporto-per-linux-arm64-in-beta/
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Signal ora supporta i Chromebook nell'ultimo aggiornamento! 🎉
https://aboutsignal.com/it/notizie/signal-ora-supporta-i-chromebook/
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Passiamo a Signal: https://signal.org/install
#signal #messaging #im -
Passiamo a Signal: https://signal.org/install
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In case you missed it, the latest update to #Signal allows you to link multiple mobile devices. So if you have a phone and a tablet for example, you can install the app on your tablet and link it to your primary phone/account, just like you could with the desktop app before.
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In case you missed it, the latest update to #Signal allows you to link multiple mobile devices. So if you have a phone and a tablet for example, you can install the app on your tablet and link it to your primary phone/account, just like you could with the desktop app before.
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#Signal for Android v8.23 release notes:
* The media editor has been completely redesigned to better support tablets and foldable devices, and now it looks great on screens of all sizes.
★ The new media editor also supports removing the audio track from a video before you send it. If the pastoral slow-panorama footage from your vacation to Scotland was partially ruined by the sound of wandering sheep, with just one tap your movie can become the silence of the lambs. -
🎉 There's a new beta version of Signal!
Signal for Android v8.23
Check out the Signal Community thread for more info: https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-upcoming-android-8-23-release
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#Signal for Android v8.23 release notes:
* The media editor has been completely redesigned to better support tablets and foldable devices, and now it looks great on screens of all sizes.
★ The new media editor also supports removing the audio track from a video before you send it. If the pastoral slow-panorama footage from your vacation to Scotland was partially ruined by the sound of wandering sheep, with just one tap your movie can become the silence of the lambs. -
🎉 There's a new beta version of Signal!
Signal for Android v8.23
Check out the Signal Community thread for more info: https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-upcoming-android-8-23-release
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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-12-26
Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic brain modernizes aging CH-47 Chinook helicopters (Amir Kholam for Interesting Engineering. August 11, 2026.) This reminds me of replacing the SSD and RAM in a cheap laptop I purchased on Ebay last year (I got in right before the DDR3 RAM was hit by price hikes!) 2 | ICE slams Long Island judge who let once-deported illegal immigrant walk out of court […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-12-26/
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#DHS Wants Protesters’ #Signal Group #Chats
A lawsuit accuses #HomelandSecurity of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ #encrypted communications.
#privacy #freespeech #protesters #rightshttps://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-protesters-signal-group-chats/
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#DHS Wants Protesters’ #Signal Group #Chats
A lawsuit accuses #HomelandSecurity of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ #encrypted communications.
#privacy #freespeech #protesters #rightshttps://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-protesters-signal-group-chats/
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The Register: Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you’re actually chatting with the right person. “Signal has introduced a new layer of security to help make sure no one has secretly interfered with your encrypted chats. The chat app is favored by diplomats, activists, and journalists for its security. It uses end-to-end message encryption and ‘safety numbers’ – cryptographic […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/12/the-register-signal-adds-an-extra-layer-of-security-to-make-sure-youre-actually-chatting-with-the-right-person/ -
The Register: Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you’re actually chatting with the right person. “Signal has introduced a new layer of security to help make sure no one has secretly interfered with your encrypted chats. The chat app is favored by diplomats, activists, and journalists for its security. It uses end-to-end message encryption and ‘safety numbers’ – cryptographic […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/12/the-register-signal-adds-an-extra-layer-of-security-to-make-sure-youre-actually-chatting-with-the-right-person/ -
Signal estreia verificação automática de chaves para travar interceção de conversas. A plataforma de mensagens Signal acaba de introduzir a Verificação Automática de Chaves, uma nova ferramenta de segurança concebida para garantir aos utilizadores que os seus chats encriptados não são alvo de interceção. 📱
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Signal estreia verificação automática de chaves para travar interceção de conversas. A plataforma de mensagens Signal acaba de introduzir a Verificação Automática de Chaves, uma nova ferramenta de segurança concebida para garantir aos utilizadores que os seus chats encriptados não são alvo de interceção. 📱
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La Suerte Animalitera
#12Ago #LosEscondidos
LottoActivo LaGranjita
SelvaPlus
SON GRATUITOS- (07) PERICO 🦜
- (12) CABALLO 🐎
- (21) GALLO 🐓
- (30) CAIMÁN 🐊Ñapa - (16) OSO 🐻
Ayer de 5 - 5
¡Fé y Suerte!
¡Y Vamos por MAAASS!
#LosTosTonesyRs
#Bluesky #Signal
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La Suerte Animalitera
#12Ago #LosEscondidos
LottoActivo LaGranjita
SelvaPlus
SON GRATUITOS- (07) PERICO 🦜
- (12) CABALLO 🐎
- (21) GALLO 🐓
- (30) CAIMÁN 🐊Ñapa - (16) OSO 🐻
Ayer de 5 - 5
¡Fé y Suerte!
¡Y Vamos por MAAASS!
#LosTosTonesyRs
#Bluesky #Signal
#Mastodon #RT -
La Suerte Animalitera
➡️ #12Ago
Loterias
Zulia - Chance
Caracas-Tachira
¡ Juegalo como Quieras !➡️ 417
#Telegram #Signal
#Bluesky #Mastodon
#Facebook #LosTosTonesyRs_
#LosTosTonesyRefrescos_
¡Muchichisisisisimas Fé y Suerte!
¡Y vamos por MAAASS!
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La Suerte Animalitera
➡️ #12Ago
Loterias
Zulia - Chance
Caracas-Tachira
¡ Juegalo como Quieras !➡️ 417
#Telegram #Signal
#Bluesky #Mastodon
#Facebook #LosTosTonesyRs_
#LosTosTonesyRefrescos_
¡Muchichisisisisimas Fé y Suerte!
¡Y vamos por MAAASS!
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For people like me who are obsessed with details, the blog post is a long and fun read.
Not that it is in any corporates' interest to allow their customers to encrypt communications entirely, but signal's work on encryption is worthy to be a product of its own.
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For people like me who are obsessed with details, the blog post is a long and fun read.
Not that it is in any corporates' interest to allow their customers to encrypt communications entirely, but signal's work on encryption is worthy to be a product of its own.
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Signal introduceert automatische sleutelverificatie 🔑
Een eenvoudigere oplossing om end-to-endversleuteling tussen jou en je contact te bevestigen
👉 https://aboutsignal.nl/nieuws/signal-introduceert-automatische-sleutelverificatie/
#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #security #privacy #tech #nieuws
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Signal introduceert automatische sleutelverificatie 🔑
Een eenvoudigere oplossing om end-to-endversleuteling tussen jou en je contact te bevestigen
👉 https://aboutsignal.nl/nieuws/signal-introduceert-automatische-sleutelverificatie/
#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #security #privacy #tech #nieuws
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Signal introduces Automatic Key Verification 🔑
It provides an easier solution for confirming end-to-end encryption between you and your contact
👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-introduces-automatic-key-verification/
#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #security #privacy #tech #news
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Signal introduces Automatic Key Verification 🔑
It provides an easier solution for confirming end-to-end encryption between you and your contact
👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-introduces-automatic-key-verification/
#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #security #privacy #tech #news
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I think it's confusing to describe end-to-end encryption with phrases like "Not even WhatsApp can read your messages" or "The private key stays on your device — only you, not Signal, not anyone else, have access to this private key".
That's because "WhatsApp" is referring to the company WhatsApp and its servers, but it appears to the reader as if it could refer to the app/client "WhatsApp" installed on their device—perhaps they aren't even aware there is such a distinction.
But of course "WhatsApp" the app absolutely can and in fact does read your messages! That's how it can show them to you! So can Signal!
This isn't just confusing if you're unfamiliar with E2EE, it also makes it more difficult to talk about how Signal having a free client vs. WhatsApp's proprietary client factors into the situation.
So this phrasing is needlessly confusing. Maybe say something like "Not even the WhatsApp company servers can read your messages. They are only on your device.".
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I think it's confusing to describe end-to-end encryption with phrases like "Not even WhatsApp can read your messages" or "The private key stays on your device — only you, not Signal, not anyone else, have access to this private key".
That's because "WhatsApp" is referring to the company WhatsApp and its servers, but it appears to the reader as if it could refer to the app/client "WhatsApp" installed on their device—perhaps they aren't even aware there is such a distinction.
But of course "WhatsApp" the app absolutely can and in fact does read your messages! That's how it can show them to you! So can Signal!
This isn't just confusing if you're unfamiliar with E2EE, it also makes it more difficult to talk about how Signal having a free client vs. WhatsApp's proprietary client factors into the situation.
So this phrasing is needlessly confusing. Maybe say something like "Not even the WhatsApp company servers can read your messages. They are only on your device.".
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I liked the sound of #Signal 's automatic key verification until I read it's underpinned by cloudflare and a slop security org. I'll stick with manual verification, thanks.
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I liked the sound of #Signal 's automatic key verification until I read it's underpinned by cloudflare and a slop security org. I'll stick with manual verification, thanks.
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طورت سيجنال طريقة تسجيل اختيارية تسمح للمستخدمين بإنشاء حسابات دون الحاجة لرقم هاتف، تُعرف باسم 'Signal Login'. تهدف هذه الميزة إلى زيادة خصوصية الحساب، لكنها ستتطلب دفعة واحدة بدلاً من اشتراك متكرر، وذلك للحد من الحسابات الآلية والبريد المزعج.
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طورت سيجنال طريقة تسجيل اختيارية تسمح للمستخدمين بإنشاء حسابات دون الحاجة لرقم هاتف، تُعرف باسم 'Signal Login'. تهدف هذه الميزة إلى زيادة خصوصية الحساب، لكنها ستتطلب دفعة واحدة بدلاً من اشتراك متكرر، وذلك للحد من الحسابات الآلية والبريد المزعج.
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@alternativeto I read this first on some random website not from @signalapp or @Mer__edith !?!
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Nice, #signal is rolling out key transparency. 🥳 (Have been waiting for this a while.)
https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/117077942367367269 -
Beta test Signal Desktop for Linux ARM64:
https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-test-signal-desktop-for-linux-arm64/76184
I will try on my test #Librem5 soon.
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Signal führt mit »Automatic Key Verification« eine zusätzliche Absicherung für Ende-zu-Ende-verschlüsselte Chats ein.
Über »Key Transparency« lässt sich erkennen, wenn der öffentliche Schlüssel eines Kontakts unerwartet ausgetauscht wurde. Cloudflare und Trail of Bits fungieren dabei als unabhängige Auditoren.
Ein sinnvoller Schritt, der die bisherige manuelle Prüfung der Sicherheitsnummer ergänzt.
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#Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?
https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-is-working-on-registration-without-a-phone-number/
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Today's instalment of 'people who criticise #Signal should understand why Signal made specific choices and provide better solutions to those problems':
Signal uses a phone number to sign up (boo, PII!). This serves three primary purposes:
The one I don't really like is that it limits account-creation rate for antispam purposes. This is largely a problem because Signal conflates identifiers (your phone number or username) with capabilities: anyone who has your identity can contact you, there's no way of saying 'this person may add me but does not have any token that allows them to pass on the ability to contact me'. And this is a thing that should be table stakes for any messenger, but isn't something I've seen done well anywhere.
More importantly, it enables discovery. In a world where most people used SMS, WhatsApp grew rapidly by reusing this identifier. If you had a contact list of people you used SMS to talk to, WhatsApp would automatically create a contact list with everyone who was already in your contact list. That's how WhatsApp grew to a billion users in a few years. Apple's iMessage copied this flow. Signal added some attempt at making this privacy preserving (though the space of valid phone numbers is so small that it's not hard to exhaustively enumerate it) and ideally they'd have some protocol so that you could find people by phone number only if you, specifically, were allowed to (some kind of zero-knowledge system that checked that both of you had the other in their contacts).
This isn't just a marketing things. Growing the network rapidly is important for privacy. Privacy cares a lot about the concept of an anonymity set: the set of users that might be mistaken for you. If you're using something like XMPP, with a one-user server, your anonymity set is just you: any message from your server comes from you. If you're using a server with a hundred users, it's fairly easy to correlate messages sent from a client to the server with messages sent from the server elsewhere (even if they're end-to-end encrypted) because normal humans don't send messages all of the time and so there will be moderately long periods (seconds, if not minutes) where you're the only one sending messages. If you're on a server with a million users, there will be very few times when you're the only person sending a message and so this kind of correlation is hard. But, since Snowden, we know that at least one (and I would be shocked if it is exactly one) nation state is routinely running this kind of correlation, so this is something that any private messenger needs to consider in scope.
What about other identifiers? The theory with XMPP was that email providers would also offer XMPP and you'd use the same identifier for both. Yay! Except most email providers didn't (except, briefly, gmail), so now you had two different identifiers that looked the same for reaching you. And here's the sad fact: most people don't have email addresses in their systemwide address book. They have mail clients that remember people they've contacted before. Unless they give your app access to their email account (and they absolutely should not be encouraged to give messenger apps access to their email), you can't get a list of email addresses for contacts (and, if you do, it will also include a load of companies and probably spammers). So it doesn't work as a discovery mechanism.
The final one is recovery. If you can't log into Signal, you can reacquire the account with a SIM and a passcode. Getting a replacement SIM is normally easy. You could do this with email but most people have free email from a single provider. A phone number is something that you pay for but the free emails come with no guarantee of service and can be cancelled at any time without giving reason. Email-based recovery is nice to have as an alternative option but for most people it's strictly worse (in fact, their email address probably has an SMS-based recovery flow!).
So, if you want to criticise Signal for using phone numbers, please do! I don't like it. I think there are better solutions to these things.
But don't pitch your favourite messenger as better than Signal because it doesn't need a phone number unless you come with an explanation of how you solve those problems. And if you do have a better solution to those problems, don't bother comparing to Signal, tell me about why your messenger is amazing because it has good solutions to those problems!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@aboutsignal/117054734086971962
Many of my kids want to securely text other kids who have laptops but not a phone plan or a debit card or spare money securely. This will stop that.
This will also make new users think that signal is a greedy company doing pay for privacy.
#signal #money #privacy #kids #security #text #android #sms #thetruth #badidea #budgeting #floss #debitcard #nophone #frugal
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117076038797886633
David has good points.
The lesson I take from this is this one:
Don't mindlessly shit on what your competitors offer.
