As Signal get your phone number. Can we considerate this application as private ? What’s your thoughts about it ? I’m also using SimpleX, ElementX, Threema, but not much people using it…

Cheers

  • the rizzler@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 days ago

    i don’t want to make you do my googling for me but if you have anything else just on-hand i’d love to read it. i can’t trust the open tech fund because of its ties to the cia (see this paragraph by dessalines) but i’ll definitely look into briar

    • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I would disregard, at least, that line of thinking. I mean, Tor was heavily funded by the CIA… However, it’s secure. Linux kernel is largely funded by the US government. However, it’s secure.

      What dessalines is doing is called “poisoning the well”.

      However, I’ll find some more, as I recently was looking into this.

      • the rizzler@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 days ago

        i don’t agree with everything in that essay but the OTF-CIA connection gives me good reason not to read anything they say. not that everything they fund is bad but everything they say is untrustworthy.

        maybe more importantly though, is briar android-only? no desktop app?