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I thought the HN crown championed Signal and Marlinspike's products... or was that yesteryear?

• George83728 3y ago
  Sometimes the HN crowd champions something so often and so enthusiastically, it starts to set off alarm bells. Signal, Mullvad, and Tor all seem a little bit too good to be true, and the amount of messaging I see to the contrary makes me suspect these might be honeypots targeted specifically at people who think they're too savvy to fall for honeypots. Not a strong suspicion, but greater than zero. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. I pay for Mullvad anyway, if my worst suspicions are true then it will still be good enough to hide my petty torrenting from MPAA lawyers (which is beneath the concern of the CIA/etc anyway.) There's no way I'd trust it if I were in Snowden's shoes though. For anything that might plausibly interest the CIA/NSA/FBI, I would not trust these tools (or others) to keep me private.