Re:Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign...
by ethbr1 on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:32AM
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> If the app developer tells me it's dangerous and I shouldn't do it, can you even expect users to do this?
If you care about reproducible builds and avoiding trusting Google, you're already in the class of not-most-users.
Signal seems to have usually taken a pragmatic stance of defaults mattering.
Afaicr, that was the argument for linking to phone numbers (it allowed for more lazy users to use it) and encryption by default (few turn on opt-in-encryption).
And it seems accurate to say 'for most users, who don't know what they're doing and don't want to play personal-IT-department, using the Google Play store is more safe and secure.'
If you care about reproducible builds and avoiding trusting Google, you're already in the class of not-most-users.
Signal seems to have usually taken a pragmatic stance of defaults mattering.
Afaicr, that was the argument for linking to phone numbers (it allowed for more lazy users to use it) and encryption by default (few turn on opt-in-encryption).
And it seems accurate to say 'for most users, who don't know what they're doing and don't want to play personal-IT-department, using the Google Play store is more safe and secure.'