• bananapinball@sh.itjust.works
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    Beyond Signal support staff impersonation, the agencies said the attacks can also involve outsiders persuading victims to surrender their verification codes or PINs, or abusing the platform’s Linked Devices feature via QR codes to take control of accounts.

    It’s fine, a governement entity can choose any tech they want.

    But in this case, the arguments are all wrong. New IM system won’t fix human being social engineered.

    • harc@szmer.infoOPM
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      It won’t, but it also won’t route traffic through Amazon servers. Also IIRC its just a matrix server they run. Wouldent be that sure its really much safer.