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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 07 2019, @05:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the faux-signaling dept.

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Sports teams are using Signal to duck deflategate-like scandals

Facebook isn't the only company struggling over the prospect of end-to-end encryption in messaging apps, as a report from Yahoo Sports cites examples from "every level of sport" turning to encrypted messaging. While Whatsapp and iMessage provide encrypted communications, increasingly the app of choice is turning out to be Signal, which not only protects their message from MITM spying, but can also auto-delete them based on rules.

If you're a college coach or athletic director and someone makes a FOIA request, that could reduce the amount of information they get about contacts with recruits and boosters. In the NFL, investigators pursuing the "deflategate" incident famously requested access to Tom Brady's texts, but the quarterback destroyed his phone prior to meeting them -- an act cited in the league's decision to hand down a four game suspension.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @07:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @07:12PM (#917442)

    Signal might have the best security model in the known Universe, but requiring a phone number is not good, IMO.
    Believe it or not, some of us don't use smartphones, so any software requiring one would be instantly discarded.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 07 2019, @07:21PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 07 2019, @07:21PM (#917447) Journal

    Get a burner phone with a number you don't care about. Don't use it much.

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