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EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
- lone-commenter 7y agoThis won't improve the security, right? Both apps use the same crypto for communication; while regarding the quality of infrastructure and client's code, they are at best comparable. The only point against WhatsApp (and a good one) is it's owned by Facebook, and thus so-called metadata belong to them. But one may be happy to see people moving away from Facebook.
- upofadown 7y agoThe Signal client has reproducible builds: * https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/ReproducibleBuilds.md https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/Repr... ... and available source code. The Whatsapp client does not. Weirdly enough though, Signal does not allow distribution of the client on F-Droid...
- onetimemanytime 7y agoEU Commission to Signal: Here's 45 Million euros and we'll have x engineers audit Signal. (Future headline)
- rcarmo 7y agoI’m a bit curious as to whether this will have any actual impact on the number of people (and businesses) who use WhatsApp. It’s utterly insane how much of our daily lives goes through it in my neck of the woods...