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Requiring a google email address and chrome for a secure messaging system? Very strange move.
by mrmondo 11y ago
Requiring a google email address and chrome for a secure messaging system? Very strange move.
- frayesto 11y agoThey're using Google groups to manage the beta testing program. Make sense since that's how you sign into the Chrome app store to download the app.
- jrnvs 11y agoIsn't that just horrible? A secure messaging service that requires a google account for installation.
- lallysingh 11y agoNo, not /require/. Here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop (link from the webpage). Go get bower and npm and build it yourself. It'll be a zipfile.
- rsync 11y ago"Make sense since that's how you sign into the Chrome app store to download the app." I don't think it makes any sense at all. Even if you do use gmail/google in some places (I don't) it's not a given that you want to tie that identity to this app or these activities. A throwaway google account is getting very difficult since google automatically flags an account with no mobile phone number attached to it as a "suspicious activity" account, immediately forcing you to add a mobile number. Google is not the Internet. Their app store is not the Internet. I can't believe that the people I know to be behind this project have tied it to google in such a necessary and intimate way.
- marssaxman 11y agoReally, they do that now!? No way am I giving Google my phone number, goddamn. I have gradually drifted away from using any Google services - I guess I won't be creating any new Google accounts in the future, then.
- marssaxman 11y agoOh, well, nevermind then! I'm not signing in to some damn app store no matter how cool the software may be.