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		saurik on Aug 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I don't trust Signal It also requires there to not be a hardware sidechannel exploit on the device running SGX... such as the variants of Spectre that have ben trickling out every few weeks now all year... so yeah: Moxie's trust of SGX is pretty damning.

Vinnl on Aug 10, 2018 [–]

As I understood it, the "trust" comes down to: "it has some limits, but it's strictly better than nothing". I wouldn't call that damning.

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