hossein

joined 10 months ago
[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 months ago

Signal just doesn’t feel like it’s iterating fast enough.

Development is always a lot harder when you need to consider all the privacy aspects. When you don't, you can be Telegram and give fancy features real fast.

you can bet there’s a back door in there

I mean you can educate yourself about cryptography and find the "backdoor", the source code is out there for both the server and the client. And I assure you there are a lot of people in academia who would love to do that and get lots of citations, but no one has ever done so, so maybe there is none? That is if we don't consider all the security audit commisioned by Signal itself on its app/server.

[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago

Fixed it. I am using GBoard, though I don't know if it was me or the keyboard. Thanks for the quote and being nice.

[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 7 months ago
[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for sharing your story.

If I weren't born Iranian, I'd learn Persian too just for the beautiful poems and songs that I haven't seen in any other language (Arabic and Urdu could come close though).

[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

4: Persian, English, Chinese, French

I used to be able to do so in Esperanto and Arabic as well but not anymore.

[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago

So cool, thanks for sharing.

[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

If something supports linux-libre kernel, it supports all distros. See https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Considerations.html

Also: https://www.h-node.org/

[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago
[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

They have no data of you to share with the FBI. No list of your contacts, no list of your groups, no data of stickers you use, basically nothing. That's what's great about Signal.

I suggest that you read their transparency reports to see what I mean. They share redacted version of their communications with the govts: https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/

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