"But if my threat model is Mossad, Signal could be forced to-"
No. Stop it. Your threat model isn't fucking Mossad--who could probably pwn half of the entire Matrix ecosystem with a single libxml2 zero-day.
"But my self-hosting"
Irrelevant.
"But jurisdiction"
You think Swiss privacy law will stop the CIA from doing another CryptoAG?
They probably have 10-20 of those floating around already. Private "no log" VPNs are an attractive target for that.
Soatok Dreamseeker /
npub17u…4305p
2025-06-18 09:23:29
in reply to nevent1q…sjqg
Author Public Key
npub17uyfsxsnfgg6dgqazlfjv2gdl235mq0dug9wq6kjq9ngzh6pdyese4305pPublished at
2025-06-18 09:23:29Event JSON
{
"id": "26a0f74b46a46fdc7846181116fa05cd9b17b94b74ca1e8d56e0995b50a1dae1",
"pubkey": "f708981a134a11a6a01d17d326290dfaa34d81ede20ae06ad20166815f416933",
"created_at": 1750238609,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"46f3100367e6271dd6e56feef17f38751f13c48e35ed441d9ee7d2a88f921a08",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://furry.engineer/users/soatok/statuses/114703637530015968",
"activitypub"
],
[
"client",
"Mostr",
"31990:6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9:mostr",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub"
]
],
"content": "\"But if my threat model is Mossad, Signal could be forced to-\"\n\nNo. Stop it. Your threat model isn't fucking Mossad--who could probably pwn half of the entire Matrix ecosystem with a single libxml2 zero-day.\n\n\"But my self-hosting\"\n\nIrrelevant.\n\n\"But jurisdiction\"\n\nYou think Swiss privacy law will stop the CIA from doing another CryptoAG? \n\nThey probably have 10-20 of those floating around already. Private \"no log\" VPNs are an attractive target for that.",
"sig": "c1f6d446949994504b5b4088938a6b0e7933093ac17a364cefcfaf779951e7089a467e16a9399ead499c626cd3ca9180c36c6966e2f1469a6164b1191f077ac5"
}