 Tommy here from Lauren systems and his signal still secure. Should I delete this app for my phone? Is it really not obviously oriented anymore because some random person on Twitter said something? Well, let's break this down and we'll start with this the amount of energy necessary to refute BS posted online is Orders of magnitude greater than the energy it took to produce it think about that This is one of the problems that frequently people have is some random person Well, not even random person sometimes it's an army of bots a bunch of Twitter bots of newly formed You know Accounts that are running around tweeting signals compromised and then a bunch of people go But is it could it be that all these security researchers and all these people that are you know Reviewing the code looking at it understanding a protocol understand the cryptography involved in it We're all wrong and there's some flaw that this random person on Twitter And then people start tagging me or you know asking signal questions like are you secure? Is this still secure app too long didn't watch signal was secure yesterday. It's secure today It'll be secure tomorrow And I'm doing this video because signal had tweeted this out right here We had an uptick and usage for Eastern Europe and rumors are circulating that signal is hacked and compromises as false Signal is not hacked We believe these rumors are part of a coordinated misinformation campaign meant to encourage people to use less secure alternatives You can just look over here and Russia forces continue strikes in multiple cities throughout the Ukraine We know the current events of today here in March of 2022 Signal sees a uptick in European users This is undoubtedly people that are concerned a little bit more than just privacy, but actually their personal safety They want to use an app that they can trust that when they are speaking with someone It is that someone and nobody in between is picking up that conversation This isn't just like I said privacy this could be all the way escalated to life and death So this is obviously very serious a lot of people are looking at these apps and signal Because it's a popular security app that by default and only by default it does Full secure end-to-end encryption meaning between the app wherever you started talking to someone and where it landed That's where it was decrypted It was encrypted here and decrypted there at its destination and at no point in between was it well able to be decrypted I should say the important part to think about here is They're doing it not only by default, but it's the only option when you talk with signal It's all encrypted other applications lots of telegram being an easy example Do not encrypt by default and as you know if you work in computer technology and security at all The default is where most people leave it now I've you see more concerned or many the savvy audience that we have here are people who will change the defaults to a more secure setting But we know the average user is not going to do that signal is aware of people's behavior of Leaving things at default so they only offer encrypted now the other reason signal does it is for two reasons Well one so you have a good end-to-end encrypted system and the second part is really simple if signal does not have your data You cannot compromise your attack signal with the hopes to get data signal has posted this before and talked about how they deal with subpoenas and right here is an example of how they dealt with a search warrant Because everything in signal is end-to-end encrypted by default the broad set of personal information that is typically easy to retrieve in other apps Simply doesn't exist on signal servers once again. It requests sought a wide variety of information We don't have including the user's name address correspondence context groups or call records And this is all a breakdown of that subpoena and this is something signal has done before tongue-in-cheek going We provided them with everything we had we gave them all of it Which was nothing and by not having anything it makes it easy for them to respond to subpoenas because you can't just ignore them That would be a different problem You have to respond but that response can be a very honest one and as so a signal does We gave you everything which is nothing and that being said this is a important They have been put to the test many times in the past now They're just putting themselves to the test now with misinformation that people have out there Obviously this misinformation is undoubtedly by people looking to compromise them And this is very likely a russian campaign You know, we don't know for sure where all these rumors come from But we can suspect that people are well not happy that the Ukrainians are using a more secure app or anyone is this is something that we're dealing with all the time Is government bodies that would like things not to be encrypted so they would like to see our conversations upon request And well, that's never going to go well. We already are familiar with other acts such as urnit that is going on here in the us It's not anything new back to signal. Yes, it's secure That's all my rant is about today for those of you that are wondering for those of you that are interested in using it I would still recommend it It's still my favorite app when it comes to end and encrypted privacy I have a lot of friends that are using it not just my computer and technology friends But a lot of the general populace has really over the years switched to it I've actually been really excited to see the large number of users And I know some of it's attributed to elan had tweeted about it and things like that Whatever makes it popular. I'm fine with, you know, more people using a secure app where we have privacy in our conversations That cannot be spied on I think is a good thing I think signals a solid product But I'll leave links to my previous videos I've done on signal I've talked a little bit more in depth about different features on there But you can still trust the app or you can trust nothing. That's really up to you You can trust random twitter accounts that are spreading misinformation Or you can trust long time vetted security researchers Or maybe some rando person on youtube who posts about these things and posts about them prior to the current events of 2022 And it's going to continue posting about my advocacy for a privacy app such as signal and that I use it So all right links down below for things I mentioned and thanks And thank you for making it all the way to the end of this video If you've enjoyed the content, please give us a thumbs up If you would like to see more content from this channel, hit the subscribe button and the bell icon If you'd like to hire a short project head over to laurance systems.com and click the hires button right at the top To help this channel out in other ways There's a join button here for youtube and a patreon page where your support is greatly appreciated For deals discounts and offers check out our affiliate links in the description of all of our videos Including a link to our shirt store where we have a wide variety of shirts that we sell and designs come out Well, randomly so check back frequently and finally our forums forums dot laurance systems.com is where you can Have a more in-depth discussion about this video and other tech topics covered on this channel Thanks again for watching and look forward to hearing from you