dlmetcalf

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   by dlmetcalf 10y ago

   Not necessarily. Microsoft kept trying to make a walled garden around the web. They might have had a lot of users, but the web fought back and luckily today we have 'world wide web', not a totally isolated Microsoft Web, Google
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   by dlmetcalf 10y ago

   I guess at the end of the day, that exactly my concern too. Signal is awesome, which is why we want to use it, but then suddenly the user finds they're now inextricably tied to Google or Facebook collecting their metadata - while we kn
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   by dlmetcalf 10y ago

   Good to hear that's remained the case @moxie.
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   by dlmetcalf 10y ago

   This is probably what made me double-take the most. I don't understand why Guardian were denied permission to use the code. Sure, OWS aren't under any obligation to, but it doesn't really feel like it's in the spirit of
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   by dlmetcalf 10y ago

   Nope. If you control the votes, you control the money, the laws that make it, the military (including intel services, alliances & secret police), plus the rest. You don't even need to buy a presidency then. Once you control votes,
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   by dlmetcalf 10y ago

   IMO, if they consider that too complex to handle, then application security is too complex for them to be working on too. I wouldn't want a developer who doesn't even know how to handle pipes, to go anywhere NEAR apps needing sec