Wire seems fine, better than many alternatives, but ditching Signal because of the possibility for phishing seems very odd?

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beeforpork 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Odd? No, it's normal politician behaviour. Julia Klöckner herself got hacked because she is not aware of phishing. To distract from her incompetence, she urges to switch to Wire to implicitly blame Signal. It's obvious what's going on, but people have so little knowledge about digital communication and security that she will get away with it. Poor woman got hacked by insecure Signal, people will remember.

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iugtmkbdfil834 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As an argument, it barely passes initial scrutiny suggesting the real reason is not that.

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Grumbledour 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The bundestags president, Julia Klöckner, was recently a victim of phishing on signal. While there could be different motives behind her suggestion, I think they are just another facet of her not really understanding technology and security practices.

She thinks she was "hacked" on signal, and now wants to switch to something which is clearly better! Let's wait where she will want to go once she gets "hacked" there too...

While there are valid reasons for germans not to want their politicians to use private messenger apps on their private phones for official business, and american ones at that, this switch would of course change nothing about all of these problems. But at least they can claim they did something, right?

	▲	iugtmkbdfil834 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		<< While there are valid reasons for germans not to want their politicians to use private messenger apps on their private phones for official business, and american ones at that, Personally, I am starting to think we should ban politicians from using smartphones altogether possibly followed by other technological restrictions. It is part of my: "They Will Hate it: Good" portfolio of ideas to improve the world or at least make it a little more funny.

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tosti 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My tin foil hat says it has something to do with chat control, i.e. being able to intercept messages or to siphon messages from Alice or Bob directly.

	▲	internet_points 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		She's suggesting her own group of contacts should switch to something that makes it easier to intercept her own messages?
	▲	rrr_oh_man 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ding ding ding

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bspinner 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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