Whoa, I have like half of these, nice!

Again.

Yeah, we don’t really have systemic/infrastructure dependency on Apple. Compared to Microsoft (which we are dependant upon atm) who can and does extort the EU a bit everywhere it can.

That’s why foss all the things!

Just the evil nature of a megacorp manifesting in monology tenancies.

Anti-monopoly laws are at most too loose atm, not too strict.

(Also the threat is just a threat, they’ve been saying that for a decade now.)

Isn’t it open source?

Oh, you think that they show you the actual door? They don’t - ever.

In open source projects they indeed do show the backdoor. That’s is one of the key points of open source (along with free-ish terms of use). Closed source projects just say “there aren’t any” without showing anything.

I’ve said many times I’m critical of Signal & ready to switch, but backdoor seems unconfirmed. Even if probable on some level.

No worries, it’s not my main (or second) language either, it’s just that no backdoor is explained in that link.

I was just curious.

I don’t understand this & need some explanations (I’ve heard about the dev, it’s just USA stuff, much like Telegram mentioned Russian). Where exactly are the backdoors/the encryption compromised?

Yeah, no, I get & like that, I just somehow specifically (obviously mis-)remember that they did away with phone number as a prerequisite for creating an account (everything still the same, just that the account can’t be reset).

:(

So those posts they implemented this were lies (meaning I obv didn’t read attentively enough)?

Sad :(.

Afaik you don’t need a phone number for Signal (a “username” can substitute it, a few years back they added it). edit: you still do

(Also the phone number & IP was the security risk, not the messages, afaik.)

This however was a debate about a supposed backdoor (I otherwise agree about Signal & its USA basedness, I just remain glad it exists despite it manyfew blemishes).

Can you point it out so we can close it asap?
https://github.com/signalapp
(Iirc it’s up to date?)

Thx!

(I’m critical of Signal, but “in this economy” is the best I can hope to switch my friends to.)