It’s not some theoretical topic, it’s the reality for China, Russia, Iran. They do block commonly used VPN protocols, so people now use VPN with obfuscations. Some work, some doesn’t, some stop working as time goes. So when people say “Ha-ha, I’ll just use VPN”, it will help you for some time but the trend is they will make it a problem for you, better start preparing before it happened.
What vpn obfuscations do you use? Because you know they’ll block vpn next.
Remember subreddits going dark and people leaving reddit. Hahaha how did that work out ?
We are on lemmy now, so I don’t get your point here.
None of this has anything to do with Signal itself, which is as secure as it gets.
Didn’t I say that at the start of my questions? What’s your point?
server would catch and reject it if it’s fingerprints don’t match the previously known good copy, or a public version
If I understand you correctly, you mean that Signal app checks itself and sends the result to the server that can then deny access to it? Is that what Signal does and what makes it difficult to spoof this fingerprint?
I don’t think you answered any of my questions though since they weren’t about Signal.
Now you’re just coming up with weird things to justify the paranoia
I’m just asking questions about security I don’t know answers to, I’m not stating that’s how things are.
What if the malicious actor is not Signal but Google or the hardware manufacturer?
Can we check that the encryption key generated by the device is not stored somewhere on the device? Same for the OS.
Can we check that the app running in memory is the same that is available for reproducible build checks?
Can we check that your and my apps at the moment are the same as the one security researchers tested?
More likely they just send the encryption key to the server after it’s generated.
Should you not also trust your device hardware, it’s os and the market you got the app from?
The code can be okay but it’s delivery method(aka Google), the OS(aka Google) or the hardware can be compromised.
likely many other people who are more skilled at auditing cryptographic code than I am
Maybe but that doesn’t mean you have the same app they do, Google may have different apks for people who could check it and for those who won’t.
If it’s false
How would we know?
Signal has reproducible builds and here’s the instruction how to check it on Android https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reproducible-builds/README.md
The only games that don’t run nowadays I think are the ones that require installing kernel malware so you might reconsider playing them regardless of your OS.
It was made default for rm command in 2006.
The dog is King Charles for those wondering.
Because in practice none of these things in any way deterred countries from using their military and covered assets to practice imperialism.
In a way some of the things you mentioned were essential for this modern imperialism like NATO(just as one example of many it was NATO equipment, intel and training that allowed Azerbaijan invade Armenia), economic dependencies(invasion of Venezuela started with economic sanctions), movies, culture and the Internet(more specifically corporate owned social media) used for propaganda and controlling public narrative.
I do agree though that there are anti-war and anti-imperialism trends in Asia(we recently got to see China and India leaders shake hands, that’s very new and exciting), Africa and South America.
the general direction of world order has been moving against that sort of thing, and increasingly
What makes you think so?
a message to China and Russia that this is how the world works now.
It’s not now though, it’s how the US always did things regardless of the party currently in charge.
Everywhere
Isn’t it just Western recent hysteria? Don’t see it for most of the world.
Installing windows for most of that time hasn’t been a thing people do
I remember reinstalling win95 almost daily because how it could break with just a power loss(which happened regularly to me then).
But then I remembered 20 years ago is when winxp was already 4 years old.
Again, that’s not some theoretical topic. They can block most VPNs, they do so in China, Russia, Iran. And there are no riots on the streets, their corporate overlords don’t do anything against it. One of the reasons is that they do allow ipsec for corporate clients. Are you a corporate client? Do you use ipsec for vpn? Are there riots on the streets for this censorship instance?