The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.
Later in the article, it talks specifically about the server-side archives being stored in plain text. That’s why the hacker was able to access messages. This isn’t about the local copies on phones.
You are confused. I’m not “intentionally misreading” anything, it was written incorrectly. I’m not trying to argue anything. I’m just reading the (wrong) words used in the article. When I come across a piece of misinformation, I don’t continue reading in the hopes that they clear it up later, I write it off and close it.
Someone else cleared this up. There’s no reason to continue arguing about it.
Seems like willful illiteracy & incomplete evidence fallacy.
There was literally all the resources on the internet & a quick search to check hastily drawn conclusions before posting them.
Later in the article, it talks specifically about the server-side archives being stored in plain text. That’s why the hacker was able to access messages. This isn’t about the local copies on phones.
Yeah I didn’t read past the misinformation
Kinda seems like you’re the misinformation.
You’re confused, I am not the author of this article. I did not write the statement above, just copied and pasted it here.
I’m not confused, you’re intentionally misreading what’s happening for some reason.
“Passing through it” pretty clearly refers to the server as that’s what was hacked into and had plain text archives.
You’re hyper fixating on the fact that the article says “the app” when referring to both the phone and server pieces to try and argue… something.
You are confused. I’m not “intentionally misreading” anything, it was written incorrectly. I’m not trying to argue anything. I’m just reading the (wrong) words used in the article. When I come across a piece of misinformation, I don’t continue reading in the hopes that they clear it up later, I write it off and close it.
Someone else cleared this up. There’s no reason to continue arguing about it.
Seems like willful illiteracy & incomplete evidence fallacy. There was literally all the resources on the internet & a quick search to check hastily drawn conclusions before posting them.