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Started With Dark Web Curiosity
- Kee traced his privacy interest to reading popular articles about the dark web and Tor.
- Exploring Tor's architecture inspired applying onion routing and decentralization to messaging.
Manage Forward-Secrecy Trade-Offs
- Expect trade-offs: Session drops Signal's double-ratcheting to simplify state across decentralized storage.
- Use disappearing messages and keep device keys safe if you need stronger forward secrecy.
Crypto Properties Versus Practical Threats
- Signal offers stronger properties like perfect forward secrecy and deniability in narrow threat models.
- Kee argues those protections rarely matter in practice compared with network-level protections and usability.