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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (18 children)

What? How is this a red flag? Having third party clients is not good for security.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Is there any merit to this comment?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (14 children)

When you use a client, you are relying on the client's crypto implementation to be correct. This is only one part of it and there's a lot more to it when it comes to hardening the program. Signal focuses on their desktop and mobile clients and they hire actual security professionals and cryptographers (unlike the charlatans in this thread) to implement it correctly.

Having third party clients would not definitively mean the client is bad, but it most likely would break the security model. Just take a look at Matrix's clients.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Appreciate the link. I still believe in Matrix, even if the client ecosystem isn't there yet. There HAS to be something to replace discord, the enshitification has already begun.