Signal to add social features, employees worried about potential abuse

Re:Signal to add social features, employees worried about po... by marketingtech on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:57PM (#25911890)

There's an idealogical collision course between safely offering usernames+financial transactions and maintaining an absolutist stance on encryption.

Within minutes, you'll have people going by @ElonMusk and @JeffBezos running scams to millions of non tech-savvy users. Are you going to try to stop that in any way? Can you, while maintaining full encryption?

I can appreciate Moxie sticking to his guns, but he'll need a better plan than "we'll deal with the problem when it comes." if he doesn't want to get deplatformed by Apple/Google or face government scrutiny.

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Re:Signal to add social features, employees worried about po... by kfriede on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:07PM (#25912419)

Would an alternative be to offer auto-generated usernames that you have one-shot to generate a password for and if you lose that password you're gone? Something like opposite-dwindling-zodiac, casino-smile-widget, or creative-crumpled-dismiss?

If you choose to add a phone number as a recovery (and for contact finding) that's your optional choice.

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Re:Signal to add social features, employees worried about po... by marketingtech on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:10PM (#25912447)

There absolutely are mitigations from a technical standpoint, some with privacy trade-offs and some with UI trade-offs. But the key is to have those mitigations in place before you launch a feature with potential attack vectors.

Moxie's statement in that article claims they have no plans to address it.

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Re:Signal to add social features, employees worried about po... by waheoo on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:15PM (#25912466)

I'd quit my job if signal got deplatformed.

They're not parler.

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Re:Signal to add social features, employees worried about po... by sirwally on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:20PM (#25912498)

you should quit your job anyhow

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Re:Signal to add social features, employees worried about po... by waheoo on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:08AM (#25917411)

Hah, ok dude? the feeling is mutual.

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