@deebs@twtxt.net Yeah, it’s a story as old as time, I remember when I joined KeyBase. It had private messages, place to link and verify your social media and keys, later they also added some weird crypto integration and than it got bought by some Chinese company and the privacy went right out the window.
So I don’t really trust these new services asking for a phone numbers and offering weird crypto integrations that no one ever asked for.
I gave Signal a try and didn’t really like it. Telegram was a tiny bit better, but still think it’s not even work to keep it installed on my phone.
What didn’t you like about Signal? 🤔 And that weird crypto you speak of is Xsalsa20 Polycurve and EDCH25519 with triple ratcheting and perfect forward secrecy 😁 Who wouldn’t want a secure private and audited messaging? 🤣
@thecanine@twtxt.net I’m afraid your arguments are a bit weak there 😅
- Signal AFAIK is 100% open source
- Signal is also been audited, both it’s crypto and protocol
- The protocol (also called Signal) is also an open protocol and open source
- The protocol has a wide variety of implementation languages that can be used, including Go, Javascript, C/C++, Python and probably others.
To your statement of:
They also preach open-source and yet parts of the app have been close-sourced already.
Please provide evidence 😂 For if true, I may have to reconsider using Signal 😅
Lastly but most importantly, Signal is a Not for Profit company. It has no interest in making a profit. It is backed by some very rich and philatelists (kind people that give money away for good causes) and the open donations by it’s uses (I donate yearly) 👌 – It’s parent company Whispers Systems is a commercial entity that does make commercial products for profit – And AFAIK are also in the same market –cryptographicc software and hardware products.
@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com Bah I meant “philanthropists” 😂
@thecanine@twtxt.net I call bullshit on that. You can’t run a spam filter on e2e encrypted content where the keys are on the client device. Hmmm 🤔