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Signal also has a long history of shitting on their competitors with extremely questionable arguments, if not quite to the same extent as Telegram. The issues a
by lmm 2y ago
Signal also has a long history of shitting on their competitors with extremely questionable arguments, if not quite to the same extent as Telegram. The issues at stake here are far more important. Encrypted messengers had better hang together or they will surely hang separately.
- Canada 2y agoReally? Examples?
- lmm 2y agoLook at their blog posts about PGP (one of them is pretty much "when I get a PGP-encrypted email it's always from a weirdo" - not any kind of technical argument, just a straight-up smear), or about Matrix.
- tekknik 2y agotbf how many people sign emails when they don’t work for a gov in any capacity and therefore aren’t likely a target. people in this field tend go overboard with security when really nobody cares about what they have access to.
- Canada 2y agoThose comments were absolutely correct. That PGP failed as a viable solution for securing email communication isn't even debatable. And you're missing the point of the argument. It is a technical argument: The UX of PGP is so bad that hardly anyone bothered to use it, and that the workflow of decrypting the rare PGP-encrypted emails he received annoyed him. What did he have to say about Matrix?