Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools

Re:Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools by chaitanya on Monday November 23, 2015 @04:48AM (#10613677)

> Signal is bound to Google, and Moxie's views on corporate control and calling getting applications from somewhere else than Google "going back to the old broken desktop security model" doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

When you say its bound to Google, do you mean that users rely on play store to get Signal, or something else?

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Re:Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools by luxflux on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:08AM (#10613735)

It would be nice to find Signal on F-Droid for those of us who'd rather not be a part of the Google ecosystem.

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Re:Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools by Johnny_Brahms on Monday November 23, 2015 @06:42AM (#10614038)

There is an F-droid repo somewhere of a fork that uses websockets.

Of course not embraced by the Signal team, but from what I gather it works most of the time. Sometimes getting messages can be a bit wonky, though.

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Re:Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools by epimenov on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:05AM (#10613726)

I think it means that push notifications are delivered via google cloud platform

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Re:Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools by feld on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:07AM (#10614337)

And the concern is that Google has a backdoor into your phone

Easy solution: don't buy android

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Re:Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools by marssaxman on Monday November 23, 2015 @03:24PM (#10617060)

...and buy Apple instead? Or just go back to featurephones? I don't see any good answers in the cellphone market.

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