A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol
Serious question, if both the endpoints are completely powned by corporations and governments, what do I gain by having the traffic on the wire be secure?  Who is the only Opfor I&#x27;m defending against, Sprint?  They can barely provide working service and correct billing.<p>Its a given that secret juicy electronic stuff always ends up on wikileaks, so anything important I discuss live in person and never electronically.  So if, in a massive delusion of self importance, everything I do thats juicy can&#x27;t show up on wikileaks because its not electronic, regardless of any app I use or don&#x27;t use, and the only thing I use electronics for is the security equivalent of &quot;don&#x27;t forget to buy a quart of milk at the store on the way home&quot; then how does encrypting my quart of milk purchase help me?  Is there any reason to not take it as a given that any juicy electronic stuff ends up on wikileaks regardless of this app?<p>Realize that if I wanted to keep my visit to the supermarket a secret using this app, I can&#x27;t.  Facebook and google sell my GPS data.  Tomorrow google rewards will send me a survey asking what I thought of my visit to the store.  The store sniffs the wifi MACs and bluetooth data and camera data to track my every move, that free internet for customers isn&#x27;t entirely free.  Not to mention I&#x27;m on probably 50 camera recordings.  And the phone company knows where I am, every step of the way, for supposed 911 purposes.  And my credit card is rubbed up against my receipt purchase data to data mine the hell out of my milk purchase.  But I&#x27;m supposed to feel perfectly private and secure because Sprint can&#x27;t read the contents of my wife&#x27;s shopping list, uh huh.<p>If you keep things super nebulous and don&#x27;t think too hard, it seems I&#x27;d be protecting myself against someone, and protecting is always good and there&#x27;s always a someone to fear so obviously it must be awesome.  But analysis shows there&#x27;s not a problem and I&#x27;m not defended against any important forces only against a single weak and unimportant force and wide open to absolutely everyone else.