• AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.

    I mean lol, they require a phone number to sign up, which you can only get with an ID in many countries. You chat with a gestapo officer and they know where you life.

    Signal IS GARBAGE. Fucking garbage article, gaslighting bullshit. Fuck this timeline. Honestly this article is fucking terrorism.

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        They’re not mutually exclusive.

        Because you’re not anonymous, you lose out on privacy.

        Of course, you’re just trying to fit in with other idiots on the internet so you are incapable of understanding this basic fact.

        If there are any smart people reading this, Signal is a business and they have plenty of morons going to bat for them because of it.

        If you want privacy and anonymity, use Matrix.

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      8 hours ago

      You are confusing security with privacy. But keep on ranting if you like.

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        8 hours ago

        i would even more say with anonymity, considering the chats are still private and the main use case for messanger apps is to communicate with people who know who you are

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        7 hours ago

        There can be no security without privacy and a central server that can be extorted. But keep lying if you like.

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          7 hours ago

          Central server only gives you metadata. Therevare altrrnative clients if you don’t trust the official one.

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            8 hours ago

            plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content

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                7 hours ago

                A regular captain of industry for whom the automatic searchers of his zero-privacy messenger is one step too far lol

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                  7 hours ago

                  Even if signal was insecure and had no privacy (which it it secure and private), wouldn’t you still prefer people needed a warrant or some form of document that had to go through the court before your messages could be read?

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                    6 hours ago

                    Obviously not. Think about supply and demand. Because a toxic product is being hailed as secure there isn’t enough demand for an actually anonymous and private messenger. So calling signal “secure” is just helping state security.

                    If you actually want to message about revolutionary (illegal, “terrorist”) activity and don’t want to be traced immediately by an agent of state security or an informant, Signal offers nothing (unless you use criminal activity like identity theft). In such a case a warrant will obviously be granted and they can immediately find and arrest you.

                    Can you see the logic how Signal isn’t secure at all for an actual dissident?