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Maybe it doesn't sell all your data, but Signal's threat model is surveillance capitalism alone: >The application uses a centralized computing architecture >R
by GoblinSlayer 3y ago
Maybe it doesn't sell all your data, but Signal's threat model is surveillance capitalism alone:
>The application uses a centralized computing architecture
>Registration for desktop use requires an iOS or Android device
>Signal uses mobile telephone numbers as an identifier for users.
>OWS had received a subpoena requiring them to provide information associated with two phone numbers for a federal grand jury investigation in the first half of 2016. Only one of the two phone numbers was registered on Signal, and because of how the service is designed, OWS was only able to provide "the time the user's account had been created and the last time it had connected to the service".
Which are big regressions compared to predecessors pgp and otr.
- omnimus 3y agoYour grandma could use Signal. What is use of messaging app that nobody else will/be able to use with you? (like pgp and otr) Yeah its useless. You have to go to users. If you complain that Signal is bad because its on iOS and Andriod… good luck chatting with your two postmarketOS friends.
- fomine3 3y agoAlso it works for plausible deniability. We can argue that I installed Signal for just chat to my friends.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoMy grandma can't use Signal because she has neither iOS nor Android, dumbphone works better for her.