Signal-cli: command-line and dbus interface to Signal

Re:Signal-cli: command-line and dbus interface to Signal by kuschku on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:38PM (#13624319)

How long will this take until Moxie gets this taken down, too?

He’s been pretty vocal about preventing others from distributing clients able to use his servers that aren’t built by him (and don’t transmit usage statistics to him).

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Re:Signal-cli: command-line and dbus interface to Signal by aftbit on Saturday February 11, 2017 @03:11PM (#13624518)

Well, it's already been around since May 2015, and it's been posted on HN a few times before.

Hopefully moxie will come speak for himself (he's pretty good about that, in my experience), but I think he's mostly interested in preventing naive users from accidentally stumbling onto a client that is insecure because it doesn't auto-update.

Here's his logic for why Signal shouldn't be in F-Droid: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281

I disagree with him about a few things in this space, but if you know anything about him, it's clear that he's more interested in security and privacy for the masses than selling data to make a quick buck.

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