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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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