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Privacy is not binary like Security isn't binary. The type and amount of privacy a user wants and what you can realistically achieve beyond that depend on your
by zaarn 8y ago
Privacy is not binary like Security isn't binary.
The type and amount of privacy a user wants and what you can realistically achieve beyond that depend on your market and threat model.
Thinking Privacy is binary is like thinking IT Security is binary; until it's 100% it doesn't exist. That kind of thinking doesn't allow thinking in incremental improvements.
- trash_panda 8y agoPrivacy and security are intertwined. I believe Signal's decisions are based on the objective of making secure communications easy. If they catered to what some people want (no phone numbers and federated network) then the regular user would have different options to use Signal. Which one is the correct one? Are they all the same? No. if you decide to develop your own client (like the LibreSignal example), do you trust that the client is secure? If the end application has vulnerabilities, then the communication privacy is compromised. That's why I say they're intertwined. Even Signal suffered from this same thing with the Desktop client. It is not an easy problem to solve, and that's why Signal does not want to have random people creating custom client apps and having them associated with the project, as it could confuse non-technical users.