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My point is not that you must agree with Moxie's design choices. Just that there are inherently complex trade-offs involved and Moxie makes choices focused arou
by pa7ch 7y ago
My point is not that you must agree with Moxie's design choices. Just that there are inherently complex trade-offs involved and Moxie makes choices focused around mass adoption and not for selling the protocol to big companies.
Also, i'm not sure what you mean by third parties knowing "everything" since Signal provides E2E encryption of content and pretty good social graph protection. For existing users of Android and IOS (target market) I'm not sure what extra trust or knowledge Signal users must give to Apple/Google other then the fact that the user does use Signal.
- mirimir 7y agoUsers typically don't have root on Android or iOS. How do we know that Google/Android (or maybe telco) aren't obtaining plaintext before encryption? I'm not arguing that they're doing that. Just that the risk model depends on trusting them not to do it. And if there is compelling evidence that they can't do it, I'd love some cites. Also, Signal accounts are tied to telephone numbers. And it's well known that phones by default accurately know their locations. So any app with adequate permissions knows the device's location. And location privacy depends entirely on software settings.