#Signal Facing Collapse After #CIA Cuts Funding
So which are the free-as-in-fredom alternatives?
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia
> On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat.
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in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •Tomáš Znamenáček
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •Signal
GitHubPango
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •This is all so bad.
From the article:
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The app being quite so good at helping users “communicate outside the reach of governments” that its US intelligence community sponsors have now forsaken the project entirely is a bitter irony.
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Frank T
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Frank T • • •Well, the article, not my post. I was surprised to discover that CIA is somehow "behind" Signal. How naïve I was. I'm worried that there is no widespread or widely known free-as-in-freedom, robust, secure alternative. I'm aware that Telegram has lots of issues and that anything that uses telephone numbers is compromised.
I shall do my homeworks and find alternatives. I suspect it would end up everyone setting up little XMPP servers
Frank T
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •Jonathan Kamens
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •Jeremie
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Jeremie • • •I would, but I also remember that "anything relying on phone numbers is already compromised". It seems plausible but I can't remember where I've read it
Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Jeremie • • •It would end up with a federation of little xmpp servers.
It only Google hadn't crippled it with its own EEE 😭
Heiko Rupp
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