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I mean, they’re trying to sell a service but at the same time they aren’t wrong about the rest.
That’s a hell of a lot of massively unsubstantiated claims and paranoia.
It’s end to end encrypted, that it’s hosted on AWS or who funded the project doesn’t matter. The encryption is open-source and auditable (and has been audited as well). It doesn’t even know who talks to who. For notifications, it’s decrypted locally on the device by Signal, and can be turned off. It’s also encrypted in transit on top of the E2E so only Signal servers can decrypt the little metadata there is, not everyone on the network.
And none of this is confidence inspiring about their own service. It’s 2024, how the fuck isn’t rebuilding their compromised server not a single command away, and why are they even attempting to fix it in the first place? Why do they even have access to the server at all?
Absolutely zero credibility. None.
This is disinformation to spread anti-libre software (malware).
Someone already commented on the “nothing-burger” this article and line of reasoning actually is, so I won’t repeat it here.
This $19M figure includes more things. That’s why a blog post shouldn’t be read as an accounting report. Report summaries with salary figures are available btw, one search away.
The quoted text is not evidence for this. Quite the opposite, in fact.
He promotes Linux too. Also, I bet he drinks water.
I see some valid concerns / questions, but it’s immersed in a muddy water of arguments that is hard to disentangle.
This whole article is an advert for this companies own new secure messenger because…
Human error. Why are you allowing private keys on untrusted devices?
The next sentence is the most important:
lol
So the solution for signals problems is a matrix based app that doesn’t even have passcode rekeying? Also it seems like the source code of the app isn’t available and they literally advertise that they will hand over to the government on request
This is just an ad for something called PrivateLINE (no relation).
If you don’t know that, maybe you should start researching before writing a blog post. I’m not doing that part for you because you were to lazy/dumb.