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@deebs Yeah, it's a story as old as time, I remember when I joined KeyBase. It had private messages, place to link and verify your social media and keys, later they also added some weird crypto integration and than it got bought by some Chinese company and the privacy went right out the window.
So I don't really trust these new services asking for a phone numbers and offering weird crypto integrations that no one ever asked for.
I gave Signal a try and didn't really like it. Telegram was a tiny bit better, but still think it's not even work to keep it installed on my phone.
What didnβt you like about Signal? π€ And that weird crypto you speak of is Xsalsa20 Polycurve and EDCH25519 with triple ratcheting and perfect forward secrecy π Who wouldnβt want a secure private and audited messaging? π€£
What didnβt you like about Signal? π€ And that weird crypto you speak of is Xsalsa20 Polycurve and EDCH25519 with triple ratcheting and perfect forward secrecy π Who wouldnβt want a secure private and audited messaging? π€£
@prologic I just thought it was trying to be too many things at once, I don't want a new crypto currency thing, I don't want another SMS and calling app, when I already got Truecaller to block annoying people from calling me. They also preach open-source and yet parts of the app have been close-sourced already.
Still none of this would have been that much of a problem, if the whole thing just wasn't too little, too late. When I tried it, only one person I know was willing to give it a chance, as it's not that revolutionary and most people already got burned by apps like Keybase in the past, so at this point the solution isn't another app that will probably be bought by someone and go to shit like all the ones before it, but rather a protocol like XMPP, which has many clients and can't just he bought and abused.
@thecanine I'm afraid your arguments are a bit weak there π
- Signal AFAIK is 100% open source
- Signal is also been audited, both it's crypto and protocol
- The protocol (_also called Signal_) is al
@thecanine I'm afraid your arguments are a bit weak there π
- Signal AFAIK is 100% open source
- Signal is also been audited, both it's crypto and protocol
- The protocol (_also called Signal_) is also an open protocol and open source
- The protocol has a wide variety of implementation languages that can be used, including Go, Javascript, C/C++, Python and probably others.
To your statement of:
> They also preach open-source and yet parts of the app have been close-sourced already.
Please provide evidence π For if true, I _may_ have to reconsider using Signal π
@thecanine I'm afraid your arguments are a bit weak there π
- Signal AFAIK is 100% open source
- Signal is also been audited, both it's crypto and protocol
- The protocol (_also called Signal_) is also an open protocol and open source
- The protocol has a wide variety of implementation languages that can be used, including Go, Javascript, C/C++, Python and probably others.
To your statement of:
> They also preach open-source and yet parts of the app have been close-sourced already.
Please provide evidence π For if true, I _may_ have to reconsider using Signal π
Lastly but most importantly, Signal is a Not for Profit company. It has no interest in making a profit. It is backed by some very rich and philatelists (_kind people that give money away for good causes_) and the open donations by it's uses (_I donate yearly_) π -- It's parent company Whispers Systems is a commercial entity that **does** make commercial products for profit -- And AFAIK are also in the same market --cryptographicc software and hardware products.
Lastly but most importantly, Signal is a Not for Profit company. It has no interest in making a profit. It is backed by some very rich and philatelists (_kind people that give money away for good causes_) and the open donations by it's uses (_I
Lastly but most importantly, Signal is a Not for Profit company. It has no interest in making a profit. It is backed by some very rich and philatelists (_kind people that give money away for good causes_) and the open donations by it's uses (_I donate yearly_) π -- It's parent company Whispers Systems is a commercial entity that **does** make commercial products for profit -- And AFAIK are also in the same market --cryptographicc software and hardware products.
@prologic This is the colse-sourced part: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/qlw1ag/signal_is_adding_a_closedsource_spam_reduction/
So far it's only a spam filter, but it's still code running on the server that no one can look at, so counts in my book.
Also I guess my arguments about the protocol and crypto aren't the strongest, but the truth is that I just don't like the fact that it's just another similar protocol and similar crypto that I want to have absolutely nothing to do with.
It's the same as brave browser, I'd never download it, because I want a browser, not adware, crypto-wallet, torrent client and other garbage I do not like.
@prologic βphilatelistsβ err, philanthropists. π
@thecanine I call bullshit on that. You can't run a spam filter on e2e encrypted content where the keys are on the client device. Hmmm π€
@thecanine I call bullshit on that. You can't run a spam filter on e2e encrypted content where the keys are on the client device. Hmmm π€