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At what point has Signal ever indicated that they were targeting users that were trying to send documents to wikileaks (or require similar levels of privacy/sec
by finnn 10y ago
At what point has Signal ever indicated that they were targeting users that were trying to send documents to wikileaks (or require similar levels of privacy/security). They have consistently said they are trying to build a messaging app that normal people want to use over stopping targeted attacks. eg [0]
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10665520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10665520
- mnx 10y agoWell, than I guess I got the wrong idea about them. I thought WhatsApp was supposed to be "for the common people", and Signal was more targeted towards the paranoid.
- hollander 10y agoSignal is suitable to the paranoid, while targeting "normal" people. Snowden uses it, so that's a good indicator for the paranoid. Similar: If my mom uses it as well, that doesn't mean she's paranoid. (And I'm not saying that you said this.) And interestingly, knowing some paranoid people (by disease not profession), they usually don't care about this.
- mnx 10y agoAnd what I was originally trying to say, is that people like Snowden, or more precisely, people requiring Snowden-like security, should probably not use this feature despite the very impressive way they made it more secure.