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I think I do remember, I remember Signal started as TextSecure, an app for encrypting SMS messages, but that world is largely the same world as of today (today people are using Telegram and Instagram DMs and that stuff), but I get your point: Signal is better than nothing. I just consider the sheer worship of Signal that some people demonstrate to be dangerous and worrisome.

Can you find any criticism of Signal on the internet by any serious privacy advocate? No, everybody loves Signal unconditionally, there is no mood for improvement nor any love for solutions that are much better (at least in principle) such as Simplex.

And yet Signal is collecting all possible metadata about all its users and conversations, and all its users have a KYC phone number attached to their accounts. Is this false?

calle 1y ago

> Can you find any criticism of Signal on the internet by any serious privacy advocate?

Yep, I've had many discussions with privacy people about it, and most seemed very much down to earth about it. Only half-jokingly: It's kinda obvious that they are funded by the CIA and that the NSA doesn't care about e2e because they have root on every phone if they want.

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fiatjaf 1y ago

Do you really believe in that? I ask humbly because I don't know if I should. If they do have root on every phone why should we care about anything at all? Or maybe if we at least used something other than their central server that would at least make their lives harder.

fiatjaf 1y ago

Down to Earth, but still telling everybody to use Signal?