• Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 years ago

    Its definitely not irrelevant that signal was funded and may still be funded by the US government. That no one seems to dispute that, and think that there’s no conflict of interest between the worlds biggest abuser of digital privacy funding the supposedly secure apps they use every day, is boggling to me.

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      3 years ago

      It’s not irrelevant but it’s not proof of anything either, and does not justify the clickbait title…

      Many organisations everywhere in the world receive government funding but it doesn’t mean that they’re intelligence agencies’ honeypots. Matrix has received contributions from the French and German government, yet that doesn’t mean it’s a government op.

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      3 years ago

      The Tor project is also funded by the us government, that doesn’t make it less secure.

      With open source software you don’t need to trust that nothing shady is going on in its source code.

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        3 years ago

        Tor has decentralized nodes, signal is a single central server with no verification of what’s running on it ( that also uses phone numbers, which are tied to you identity, as its primary identifier). Also as a US company it’d be illegal for them to disclose if their server has been compromised.