Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
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How much signal and she spend onnthis shameless self promotion.
JFC, if anything she is taking signal the wrong way and going the way of mozilla IMHO
Signal is a good product but there is a lot areas where it can do better... Have gotten any new features over last 5 years? Besides aliases?
What are they working on?
Seen interesting discussions about how signal is farming our meta data to the feds, I was clowned a few years back on this hot take. I am very regarded though. Can anyone pitch on this tinfoil?
Main looking to understand if that is even technically feasible?
I was clowned a few years back on this hot take. I am very regarded though. Can anyone pitch on this tinfoil?
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Yeah idk I’ve read it like 4 times and still struggle to find a coherent thought here.
Poster was made fun of in the past for saying Signal gave metadata to the feds. He has a learning disability (regarded = deliberately misspelled R slur). They’re looking for someone else to corroborate the metadata claim.
That’s my interpretation at least.
They did a blog post about how the feds had made a second attempt to get metadata from them and they could only provide two fields of information: the date the account was created and the last time it connected to the service.
It's in the public record as well if I'm not mistaken.
The issue that if they were under FISA order or some other such shit, legally they would have to say what feds tell them, ie they would not be able to say and we give feds your logs.
Question is whether they can technically collect the logs which is tinfoil i am following up on.
Basic opsec thinking, if it is technically feasible, you must assume it is happening. This is game 101.
So here we are trying to prove a negative but nobody also is able to provide anything beyond, trust signal bro.
They probably have turned over logs because legal persuasion, and it sounds like they anticipated that. Moxie has been around the cypherpunk scene for a while, so they knew what they’re doing.
Plus the paper on the double ratchet algorithm is out there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm
You sir ain't only a linguist but a regard whisper too!
Thank you for the service!
"Retarded" is not a slur. It's a medical term. "Idiot" is a slur that roughly means the same thing, though not nearly as far.
"Idiot" is a slur that roughly means the same thing
"idiot", "moron", "cretin" and "imbecile" were all medical terms once and described different levels of intellectual disability, but they fell out of use and are now considered offensive. language changes, and context is important.
Signal uses Google Cloud Platform for their servers, for one.
Then I think it’s something to do with metadata.
(almost) anything is possible with a CIA black fund budget. I've moved to Simplex chat and not looked back.
I feel that but people can't just move since we need somebody to talk on these super duper 69 layer quantum resistant protocols.
Looks simolex is gunning for the crown nowadays tho but there other viable contenders baking.
Once new leader arrives, going to need to tell my group we migrating again 🤕
Why? Just stay on Signal. For the time being it is one of the leaders in private communication.
Though, if you truly need secure private conversations, you would want to move around a lot anyway.
For now it is the gold standard but I don't trust the leadership and their PR approach.
I won't move until I can justify moving my friends over and right now there is no alternative