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Re:Thoughts on the Durov Arrest by attendant3446 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:24AM (#41377972)
What baffles me is why people use a centralised messenger to organise a protest? and the one that is hosted in another country.

And what do you imply 'funded by the government' means for Signal? It's a nonprofit org, app has e2e encryption and clients are open-source. How is it worse than an app owned by an LLC in UAE, with no e2e encryption by default, unknown funding sources and no information about what's going on on the server?

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Re:Thoughts on the Durov Arrest by NayamAmarshe on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:05AM (#41378551)
> What baffles me is why people use a centralised messenger to organise a protest?

Because it works and because real world is not theoretical.

> And what do you imply 'funded by the government' means for Signal?

I'm not implying anything. I just listed the reasons why Durov doesn't trust state funded american encryption systems.

> unknown funding sources

What do you mean unknown? They're pretty known.

> no information about what's going on on the server

All server side code is unverifiable. In fact, Signal itself was running a totally different codebase than what it made public, for a whole year.

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Re:Thoughts on the Durov Arrest by attendant3446 on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:58AM (#41390895)
> What do you mean unknown? They're pretty known.

I mean, you don't believe the fairy tale that he actually paid for everything himself?

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