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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.
(Score: 2) by mobydisk on Friday November 08 2019, @03:49PM (1 child)
It's only botched because we elected people who passed those laws. You can't close every loophole: at some point you have to elect people who respect the boundaries, rather than people who work around them.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday November 08 2019, @04:08PM
Unfortunately the founders created a voting system mathematically guaranteed to end in a two-party system, which is easily rigged by those in power.