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Re:Show HN: Decentralized P2P Messaging with Blockchain Veri... by lawl on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:19AM (#16874214)
I totally get security/privacy vs. usability. I'm not trying to shoot you down btw. I just think we need to openly talk about these trade-offs or rather, make them clear to people who care about them (me).

Signal for example is great when it comes to confidentiality and actually easy enough to use so my mom messages me on signal, not so great when it comes to not leaking metadata. Nobody else I know uses Tox. But I know that when I use Signal it's a trade-off I'm fine with, but I'm aware of it.

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Re:Show HN: Decentralized P2P Messaging with Blockchain Veri... by ac4tw on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:43AM (#16882403)
Absolutely agree with you. Transparency in a messaging platform is important (it's sort of captured in EFFs criteria for a messenger too as regards open sourcing and inspection--not sure if you saw their recent 4 part series on messaging or earlier piece on all available messaging tools).

Your comments and 18pfsmts got me thinking about metadata from a different angle than I had been considering prior--that of a state actor's capability to observe the entire network. Your comments never came across as negative.

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