ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agoSignal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop appstackdiary.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1353arrow-down125cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareistanbullu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down10·5 months agoSignal has so many red flags that I’m beginning to wonder if it is a honeypot.
minus-squareBogasse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoWhat other red flags do you have in mind?
minus-squareistanbullu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoSignal is actively hostile to alternative clients, or decoupling from Google.
minus-squarelivestreamedcollapse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·5 months agoBack when the Signal org used to be called Open Whisper Systems it received grants and auditing from the Open Technology Fund which, at the time, was still a part of Radio Free Asia. https://web.archive.org/web/20150521181458/https://www.opentechfund.org/project/open-whisper-systems
Signal has so many red flags that I’m beginning to wonder if it is a honeypot.
What other red flags do you have in mind?
Signal is actively hostile to alternative clients, or decoupling from Google.
Back when the Signal org used to be called Open Whisper Systems it received grants and auditing from the Open Technology Fund which, at the time, was still a part of Radio Free Asia.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150521181458/https://www.opentechfund.org/project/open-whisper-systems