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He is indeed welcome to do so. It is perfectly rational for him to choose some other software. Far from not something that warrants a character assassination.
by xorcist 8y ago
He is indeed welcome to do so. It is perfectly rational for him to choose some other software.
Far from not something that warrants a character assassination. Specifically, it's not something "clownish" that we should be "ashamed" to have on the front page. We get the community we deserve.
- tptacek 8y agoPlease read what I wrote more carefully. Him wanting to use different software isn't clownish. I respect the prerogative of the phone sysadmins. Him saying that Moxie Marlinspike is untrustworthy because of a disagreement, and then urging people to use Matrix --- that's a clownish argument. And it is the bulk of his argument, paragraph by paragraph: all the reasons why the only rational reason anyone could disagree with Drew DeVault is if they are sneakily trying to screw people over.
- xorcist 8y agoLiterally nowhere in the article does he say that. The article presents two main arguments why the author chooses not to use Signal (and that by extension, other people with the same interest should do the same), that it requires Google services with root privileges, and that it doesn't federate or interoperate. There are no personal attacks on Signal's author, the author presents his reasons in a fairly objective light, so there should be no reason to chastise him.