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Re:Line app allowed Chinese firm to access personal user data by fouric on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:27PM (#26493376)
Isn't Signal both secure and centralized?
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Re:Line app allowed Chinese firm to access personal user data by swiley on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:46AM (#26501346)
They can easily force updates that exfiltrate keys. You have no choice but to use a recent version of the only client and you have no good way of verifying that the it was built from what's on github.
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Re:Line app allowed Chinese firm to access personal user data by WentFullRetard on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:21PM (#26496308)
If you want to trust that go ahead. There's been quite a few changes within the past year and a half that lead people to believe otherwise. All their servers are also US based. Remember Lavabit?
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