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Suspicious connections of Signal and to ubuntu

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      humungus
      last edited by 2 Jul 2018, 11:18

      Hello,
      when I start the software and use the Signal client, there are connections open to amazon servers and the application has a strange name. There is also a permanent connection to ubuntu or ubports open. Can anyone check this please. This seems suspicious to me.

      Best regards.

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        advocatux @humungus
        last edited by 2 Jul 2018, 11:32

        @humungus I've pinged the developer.

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          flohack
          last edited by 2 Jul 2018, 11:47

          Probably Signal uses Amazon cloud. Nothing to worry about.

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            nanu-c
            last edited by nanu-c 7 Feb 2018, 20:41 2 Jul 2018, 20:40

            @humungus,
            here is an article, why signal uses amazon aws
            https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
            The connection to ubports or ubuntu could be the push-notifications-server.
            What do you mean by "strange name"? The used namespace is textsecure.nanuc. The textsecure is the historical name of signal and nanuc us the name of the maintainer.

            Best

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              humungus
              last edited by 5 Jul 2018, 15:56

              Thank you for your reply. I was just curious, because the initial key exchange with a friend was not flawless, it needed to be restarted a second time, and also some acknowledgements of delivered messages failed. Anyway thanks again.

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