Buy European Made. Support European Values

Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by kkarpkkarp on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:38AM (#43279017)

Signal comes from the country where the Prism [1] is still functioning. While it has open source, NSA can request from deployers on any stage to inject surveillance functionality: request from Signal authors, from Android / Apple Store repository maintainers and probably many other actors on the deployment chain to my mobile phone.

I could install it from sources but I do not have any guarantee my message sent to my friend is not eye-picked by PRISM on his phone.

Open-source + marketing copy != final product

Just a regular reminder, guys.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

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Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by kreetx on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:04AM (#43279247)

I wonder why can't we have a fully open source e2ee that would be easy to use?

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Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by fsflover on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:37AM (#43279523)

Matrix is getting there.

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Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by workfromspace on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:40AM (#43280053)

I keep hearing about Matrix (protocol) for a long time now.

Wikipedia says [0] it was started 10 years ago. I wonder what's the hold up?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)

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Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by fsflover on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:45AM (#43280106)

I'm already using to to chat with my friends and family. The basic features are sufficiently polished IMHO.

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Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by SSLy on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:13AM (#43280395)

> I wonder why can't we have a fully open source e2ee that would be easy to use?

what would you say about simplex's UX? https://simplex.chat/docs/guide/readme.html

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Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by Aloisius on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:46PM (#43284360)

Signal is fully open source.

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