Why not Signal?
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A few essays on communism

We as a community must stop recommending Signal. For far too long we have blindly followed this app without a second thought. It has created a cult of followers, when there are much better apps out there for us to use.

https://archive.is/Lhe24 archive for the essay

This essay was posted to r/Privacy and subsequently removed and censored for literally No Reason. This is honestly really scary: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/wj5svi/signal_messenger_revealed_to_have_cia_ties_funded/ https://archive.ph/FZr1d

I am seriously hoping we can have a discussion about this on lemmy. @TheAnonymouseJoker , I know you from r/PrivateLife, and thought you’d be the one to go to about this. Thanks for being open in the past and not bowing to the inner circle of reddit cringelords.

I also am preparing an essay of my own about a complicit honeypot-ish web going on between Signal, Skiff, r/Privacy, r/PrivacyGuides, etc. They have a crazy little cabal that is very creepy. Any materials are welcome. Every time i turn over a stone i find two more. More to come.

  • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
    01·
    2 years ago

    Governments routinely fund the development of secure and open communication systems because they themselves benefit from having such communication tools which can be trusted. By the logic presented in this “essay”, one shouldn’t be using the internet at all. What you need to check is whether Signal’s technical claims about its encryption is true or not. There is nothing in this article that raises any question on Signal’s encryption. We already know how much data Signal has on its users through their responses to various legal subpoenas over the years (spoiler: its pretty much nothing).

    Here are some cool links for you to check out:
    https://signal.org/bigbrother/
    https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/new-documents-reveal-government-effort-impose-secrecy-encryption

    • hillbicks@feddit.de
      0·
      2 years ago

      Thanks, was about to post the same. I have no emotional attachment to signal, but I haven’t seen a real reason why I shouldn’t be using it anymore. At least from a security point of view. It works very reliably for years now and does most of the things i expect from it.

      • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
        01·
        2 years ago

        Yep! Signal is the only decent privacy-oriented messaging app available right now, which can also be used easily the non-techy masses.