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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by raulito123 on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:38PM (#12177332)
It is really funny the article, you say you use signal to communicate which is totally interceptable nowadays, you register using your real phone, so i could trace you and intercept your real phone!. If you are a real top goverment security guy NEVER use signal my friend. Seems you are newbie on the security scene.
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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by evilsocket on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:39PM (#12177340)
I'm not really sure who you're talking to ... they asked me to use Signal, honestly I didn't really care ...
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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by erlehmann_ on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @08:06PM (#12177464)
Signal is bad for other reasons, too, like creating a lock-in effect and being hostile to clients that remove the dependency on Google Play Services: http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/signal-lock-in.ht...
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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by whyever on Thursday July 28, 2016 @11:23AM (#12180777)
You could also say that Signal is good because they realized the shortcomings of federation and want to sign their binaries themselves.
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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by erlehmann_ on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:16PM (#12183609)
What would those shortcomings be? I think that networked software systems should be forward-compatible, so that new features can be introduced without breaking every existing client. Some programmers assert the only way to innovate is by having everyone run the latest version of their software and excluding competing implementations. You can see this phenomenon not only with Signal, but also, for example, with systemd.
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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by whyever on Monday August 01, 2016 @05:40PM (#12206254)
> What would those shortcomings be?

Moxie wrote about it:

https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

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