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Search warrants for Signal user data, Santa Clara County (signal.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/signal@lemmy.ml
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[–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Well, i'm not fluent in legalese, but isn't the search order also exclusively asking for those two datapoints and nothing more? They're not asking for message timestamps e.g. or other metadata.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Good catch. It does look like that. Maybe the court already knew that Signal doesn’t have any data to hand over beyond the registration dates?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Maybe the court already knew that Signal doesn’t have any data to hand over beyond the registration dates?

    That seems likely the case based off the series of previous warrants & subpoenas where they kept having to explain that they didn't have any of that other shit to give.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Are you trying to turn this into "So, they got exactly what they wanted! Signal cooperated and are thus not secure!"?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    That is not what I'm trying, no. Sorry if it came across like that.
    My point is, that this isn't an effective proof of a zero knowledge approach. In their blogpost, Signal says they don't store anything, but this specific instance of a search warrant doesn't serve to prove that.
    It is great of them that they publish when and what they are asked to disclose, that practice is definitly appreciated. I do trust Signal, it is my main messenger.
    This is just not the stresstest @Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee makes it out to be in the top comment, imo.

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