The Guardian launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge
www.theguardian.com
Secure Messaging is a new innovation for confidential story-sharing and source protection, underpinning the Guardian’s commitment to investigative journalism. The Guardian has published the open source code for this important tech to enable adoption by other media organisations.
  • MynameisAllen@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    7 hours ago

    I saw the headline and was ready to rage about why they should just use signal instead. Then I read the article and honestly this is a fucking genius use of tech

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I read it and don’t understand. Why is this better than Signal? Or the 500 other secure file/messaging protocols?

      Jabber seemed to work perfectly for Snowden…

      • rosco385@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        12·
        2 hours ago

        Because analysing network traffic wouldn’t allow an adversary to see what you’re sending with Signal, but they could still tell you’re sendig a secure message.

        What the Guardian is doing is hiding that secure chat traffic inside the Guardian app, so packet sniffing would only show you’re accessing news.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          analysing network traffic wouldn’t allow an adversary to see what you’re sending with Signal

          How are they analyzing network traffic with Signal? It’s encrypted. And why does it matter if they know you’re sending a message? Literally everyone using Signal is sending a message.