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Nemeski to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago

Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

www.wired.com

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Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

www.wired.com

Nemeski to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago
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On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
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    I wish Signal was developed more openly, more like the linux kernel for a “critical infrastructure” example. I wish it had more features, so it could take the place of something like Slack. I wish it supported interoperability like fedi.

    But it’s good for what it is and I sure am glad it’s around. People who disrespect it don’t know what they’re talking about.

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      You know, if you want to replace Slack, look into Mattermost. It’s foss but otherwise pretty much exactly what Slack does so well.

      • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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    • @ninjaturtle@lemmy.today
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      24•9 months ago

      Isn’t matrix more like slack that you are looking for?

      • paraphrand
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        When it comes to security, I don’t think it’s close at all.

        • @asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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          8•9 months ago

          Why not? I thought it had very good security. It’s E2E encrypted and the government of France uses it.

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            Maybe I misunderstood. I thought I heard about terrible security implementations relating to matrix servers.

            Edit: I think I was remembering this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/matrix-patches-vulnerabilities-that-completely-subvert-e2ee-guarantees/

            Looks like I’m mostly wrong.

            • @M500@lemmy.ml
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              3•9 months ago

              A while back people had a problem with metadata or something. I used to have my own server, so I wasn’t really worried about it.

              But it’s been like 3 years since I’ve used it or looked into it.

              Kinda curious what’s changed at this point.

    • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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      7•9 months ago

      Time for Molly

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        • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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          4•9 months ago

          Signal fork

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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            4•9 months ago

            Terrible name lmao

            • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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              1•9 months ago

              ??

              • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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                9•9 months ago

                “Molly” is a common nickname of the drug Ecstasy (MDMA)

                “time for molly” kind of implies you’re off to get high

                • @suction@lemmy.world
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                  2•9 months ago

                  MDMA high is great, I’d do it all the time. Good name

                  • Makhno
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                    3•9 months ago

                    Found the dude mumbling gibberish and pissing himself in the subway station

      • Lightscription
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        2•8 months ago

        Also a nickname for Molybdenum which makes Iron stronger like torrifying Signal makes encrypted communication stronger by protecting metadata from interception.

    • @pressanykeynow@lemmy.world
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      1•9 months ago

      I wish it wasn’t located in the US where you know even though it’s e2ee they send all the data they get(and that’s a lot) to the government or whoever wants it. But e2ee is cool, right. Nobody from the government cares about it though, but it’s cool.

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