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Signal has no known/published real security audit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by adbenitez@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Someone made a compilation of academic reviews and blogposts here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/wiki-overview-of-third-party-security-audits/13243 but none of them seem to be real security audit reports, ex. compare with real security audits to Delta Chat: https://delta.chat/en/help#security-audits

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 hours ago

Non-OS stats software in general is not automatically lacking in privacy or security

Sure is. It's only that in this case you are sure that your messages are sufficiently protected, so you can send them over a untrusted service.