Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) writes:

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:
 
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Note that signals backend is not open source. The backend software
might be, but we have no direct access to their implementation and
running of it.
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That said however, I trust them way more than FB, and I think they
have high ethical standards, so I would not worry about it.
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Can't Signal eventually be bought off?
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They claim that it's end-to-end encrypted but whatever, it has
Whatsapp's functionality without being Meta and that's good
enough for me.

That's right.  I know a tiny bit about Signal's history.  But being
centralized, how do we know what happens after the author's death or
when he moves on to other things?  Even well set up organizations can
sometimes be taken over.  Steve Jobs was fired from his own company,
wasn't him?

But, yeah, I'm sure you're better off on Signal right now.  Hosting on
Github was just fine some years ago.  But things change.