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Lets see here: Not open source: check Not federated (so they can force you to update the client): check Integrates with carrier value add: check (SIM crap)

• iorrus 6y ago
  What is federation in this context? Does not federated mean not using a jailbroken phone? Or is it related to how the app is installed? Or the underlying infrastructure relying on a central server instead of distributed?
  • dboreham 6y ago
    Federated means everyone gets to pick which server they use, including one that's specific to just that one user.
    • SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
      To expand in case it isn’t clear... if you have a federated client it has to work to a standard, a backdoor at the client could be added on one app but probably not all the options. If you were trying to hack a system like this and they don’t use a federated client, the only option is the “official app” and authorities could have taken control of that, added a backdoor, and pushed it out as an update. This could still happen with any one or two or multiple federated apps, but the changes at a lot less likely this would go undetected.... then again... I have less faith in the “many eyes” theory of these things since HeartBleed was an OpenSSL flaw for years and that was open source no one ever noticed.
      • swiley 6y ago
        Open source is more of a minimum requirement not assurance of quality.