Basically just the title, delete this if it’s not the right community.
I hate iphones and apple stuff for obvious reasons. But I am forced to use it to some degree. I just want to get a community consensus on any problems with signal being shared, seen, monitored, or sent to apple servers or icloud while being used on an iphone.
I clicked the little rainbow star to see what people not federated with my instance are saying.
You’re getting a ton of bad input and inaccurate or irrelevant information.
Do not rely on community consensus to establish proper use guidelines.
As another person stated: signal chats don’t go to icloud. You have nothing in the slightest to worry about on that front.
People are bringing up prism and push notifications. It is mandatory for companies operating in the us to comply with us government prism spying requirements. Turn on ADP. Read past the slide presented as supposedly damning evidence against one or another company if you want to understand better law enforcements processes over a decade ago. Push notifications are plaintext and represent cause in some cases. This is not unique to apple. If you think you are one of those people, turn them off.
Turn on lockdown mode. Update your phone. Turn on automatic updates. The ways people physically and remotely compromise ios are often stopped by those three things.
If you don’t already, restart your phone daily. It puts the phone in a restricted state called before first unlock that requires that non resident programs have to reload and in almost all cases have to reestablish themselves to the host os.
If you’re worried about your signal chats getting recorded, turn on the disappearing feature. The other person is the weakest link, not the technology. Do contact verification. Assume your chats are infiltrated and talk to people about illegal stuff in person like the scions of American industry do. This is not unique to apple.
Be safe out there.
Wouldn’t it be possible for Apple to have built in keyboard logger and file scanner? No matter how safe the app, the phone can be compromised from the start.
I think that argument made in a vacuum, devoid of any analysis about the companies, software and their history could apply equally to any phone (including graphene and fdroid and calyx and postmarket and etc).
So it’s not useful to bring up when someone is asking about specifically ios, since it’s a hypothetical problem that applies equally to all phones and their software and the solution to it is putting the onus on the user to audit their software, operating systems, microcode, hardware and everything else or to determine whose audit of those systems to trust.
I think it’s especially not worth considering under a material analysis of the interests of the company that makes rich people phones and advertises their system as secure and private and generally has longer time to exploit for the different law enforcement processes and provides bare minimum compliance and isn’t primarily selling user data.
On some level we have to acknowledge the tremendous logical leap required to compare apple and pretty much any other major manufacturer and say “they could have backdoored it and they could be listening right now”. Yeah, I guess they could have done that. They have less incentive and more to lose than any other company and it would take a massive internal conspiracy, but I guess it’s possible.
I want to just take a line or two and make it clear that I’m basing all the above on the material circumstances of the company, not on any misplaced love for them or their products. I have android, ios, windows, linux and macos computers and use them equally.