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You are getting off one boat and getting on the other one. Destination is the same. Any centralized communication network is by definition insecure (one point

• ahmedalsudani 9y ago
  Signal and Telegram are very different. Signal has always been an open source project that allows you to audit the source and run your own server if you so desire [1]. It’s a project that has always put security first but made some compromises for usability — very different from Telegram which has put expansion and monetization first — and it was started by Moxie Marlinspike whose views and contributions are well-known. With Signal, it is not a single point of failure. The Android, iOS, desktop apps all do end-to-end encryption. So a compromised server wouldn’t mean your messages are compromised. The client would need to be compromised, and if the client is compromised, tox.chat is toast as well. [1] https://github.com/signalapp https://github.com/signalapp
  • nasredin 9y ago
    >>With Signal, it is not a single point of failure. The Android, iOS, desktop apps all do end-to-end encryption. I meant DoS attack not encryption. AFAIK all of these secure "apps" are NOT decentralized. So if you can just block a certain IP, you'd have successfuly performed a DoS attack.