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Incredible tweet from signal cofounder. (nitter.net)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations. Don’t sleep on this opportunity…

Editing to add the link to the messages: https://archive.is/2025.03.26-131842/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (31 children)

Remember kids, if someone makes a centralized app or messaging claiming to be a savior of privacy and security, you should be skeptical of them and their integrity. Really you should be skeptical of anyone making grand promises of privacy and security, especially boastful ones. Though decentralized services are less risky than centralized ones, and that's why I recommend people use Matrix instead of Signal.

Matrix still has problems but it being decentralized eliminates many of the corruption issues by simply using a server not affiliated with the creators.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

Their claim that they dropped sms support because engineering costs causes me to question them.

There are free sms apps. Android handles SMS, an app just reads/writes the SMS database via an API.

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Matrix doesn't support SMS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Their claim that they dropped sms support because engineering costs causes me to question them.

There are free sms apps. Android handles SMS, an app just reads/writes the SMS database via an API.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

It wasn't about sending SMS, it was about sending SMS securely, and whether this actually provided an improvement offer not offering it anymore. TextSecure came out when mobile data wasn't as prevalent. But times have changed

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