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Do you have a source for this?
by blendergeek 5y ago
Do you have a source for this?
- czechdeveloper 5y agoIt's been pushed by WikiLeaks on Twitter to be used by Ukrainians. Due to some people believing that WikiLeaks has been hijacked by Russia, they do not trust the app. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1497314070738911236 https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1497314070738911236
- ajross 5y agoI don't know that "hijack" is the right term here. Skepticism is very warranted. Whatever you think about Wikileaks' mission, their independence, transparency, etc... they have absolutely been used as an asset by Russian intelligence in the past. I think looking very suspiciously at anything they have to say about a conflict involving Russia is just normal prudence. So much so, in fact, that I've actually seen the contra-conspiracy asserted: Russia made Assange/Wikileaks push this app precisely to drive Ukranians users away from it and into the arms of something else to which they presumably have more visibility.
- czechdeveloper 5y agoI wanted to word it neutrally and while I'm not sure about Assange, whoever is behind WikiLeaks Twitter account for sure seems like Russian asset.
- m-p-3 5y agoI've been usimg the app for several years before Wikileaks tweeted about it, it's not like it came out of nowhere. And the app is open-source, you can even compile it yourself.
- hans_castorp 5y agoBriar is also available on F-Droid which is a pretty good indication that it's "true" open source and doesn't contain any "spy code" (which doesn't rule out the possibility that unwanted code can somehow be loaded after installing it)