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With Signal? Sort of.

Signal has countermeasures for this but no one knows how to use them - it's very much a trust on first use system.

Fine for regular people, not at all fine when you're target number one for every foreign intelligence service on the planet.






which countermeasures require active involvement from the user? (honest question because I am curious)

You do need a PIN to secure the communications on either end. I assume it’s used in the salting process

You need to verify safety codes on someone's device to actually verify they control the device with the Signal account you're communicating too, rather then it just being relayed by a false account somewhere due to a MITM attack.



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