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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by Arcsech on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:03PM (#16127826)
There was just a comment thread (on the slack outage article) recently discussing why there are no good p2p chat programs.

This might be one reason why. Fuck software patents.

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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by ethics_gradient on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:58AM (#16130939)
It is more that without centralized servers, if that's what you mean, you have a lot of ux disadvantages.
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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by riffraff on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:57AM (#16131466)
and offline delivery, which is a big big thing.
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