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Signal lost all credibility with their cryptobro bullshit
by on_the_train 2y ago
Signal lost all credibility with their cryptobro bullshit
- tptacek 2y agoOnly among people who pay attention to cryptobro bullshit. They remain the gold standard among cryptography engineers.
- Aachen 2y agoIs Session's also good? They had this cryptobro stuff from the beginning so I never paid attention despite their claims that security is on par with Signal and the like (probably not the SGX and sealed sender bits, but the message contents encryption). Nobody ever talks about it but yesterday they apparently got a million users. Makes me wonder whether to start paying attention
- mr_mitm 2y agoBut telegram also launched a cryptocurrency: toncoin So why recommend telegram over signal?
- cokeandpepsi 2y ago[dead]
- jraph 2y agoI don't care for crypto bullshit, and I was not too happy to hear that Signal joined that party, but it turns out you don't run into this as a Signal user if you are not specifically looking into it. I don't believe they lost any credibility with this, I thing people don't know about it for the most part, or don't care for the majority of the remaining part.
- maqp 2y agohttps://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In-app-Payments#payments_deactivate https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In... and move on.
- on_the_train 2y agoThat's not how credibility and trust works
- maqp 2y agoWell you hating on a feature you don't have to use doesn't affect my opinion about the well thought out security design around the rest of the application. I have zero sympathy for the distributed Ponzi scheme that is cryptocurrency, but nothing in Signal has gotten worse with the feature.
- on_the_train 2y agoHow would you feel if they add ai, Blockchain and nft features?
- maqp 2y agoWhy would they?