What does The President of the United States have to do with any of this?
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What does The President of the United States have to do with any of this?
Are they that transparent? They were actively working with a vendor of an off the shelf solution for cracking iPhones at the exact time Comey was telling Congress that they had run through all options and therefore a backdoor of some type was needed. Then they recently claimed that the director of the FBI didn’t know about the work being done with the vendor. Come on.
Not to mention the agency’s history of the last 5 or so decades of actively spying on and trying to coerce activists, including MLK Jr. But hey, we can trust these guys with total surveillance, they’ve never abused that power against those fighting for a MORE democratic society.
Besides, transparency in undermining privacy *and the underpinnings of the economy* doesn’t mean anything. Just because I see a truck coming doesn’t make the damage any less severe when it hits me.
The old adage “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” has always been complete ********* when that friendly enemy has the authority of the state behind it.
Looks like it is grants and donation supported. No ads. Check the bottom of the link:
https://signal.org/
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Why won't Signal work on both?
Strange. I like that it is cross platform unlike iMessage. Might have to give it a try.
I like it, but that’s my only issue is that I can’t be on the iPhone and the iPad at the same time. I keep it on my iPhone. If I log into it on my iPad, it will kick me out of my iPhone.
Yeah, that horse has left the barn. Even if Facebook disappeared tomorrow, Google still exists.
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The traitorous orange nutsack who got "elected" with Putin's help and lost the popular vote? Gee, I wonder.
I think with issue, in Signal's case, is not "we can't figure out how to make this work", but rather, an intentional design feature. They don't want the possibility of any other devices being able to see a conversation, besides the two that are currently involved in the conversation. Because that would open a potential door for Bad Actors.
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Could be that Whatsapp is next, could be a sign that they have some sort of backdoor access to Whatsapp, or could be a sign that they people they care about listening in to mostly are using Telegram instead of Whatsapp.
But I have it on my MacBook and my Linux computer...
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/213240927-Can-I-use-multiple-devices-
You might like this. I still don’t trust WhatsApp due to Facebook though.
https://signal.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/
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It doesn't matter because you don't know what the ends are. They could be running a man-in-the-middle attack between you and the other person, and you wouldn't know unless you checked the public keys manually and made sure the client wasn't fudging it in some other way.
WhatsApp is closed source, so it's tough to verify any security claims about it. Telegram is open source but is known to use shockingly bad encryption (or was last time I heard), and most wouldn't check the public keys anyway.
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I like that it at least gets the messages in order, unlike iMessage
Hey, might be a reason to trust Apple. It looks like Apple is doing some pure end-to-end client setup for it, which would introduce the difficulties with syncing, message order, and group chats that I've seen evidence of through bugs.
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Lots of name calling. I still don't understand the connection here to this article.
Would it be beating a dead horse if we went through the electoral college process again? Everyone in the nation should understand it by now. And can you explain what traitorous acts have taken place? The President would have long since been brought up on impeachment proceedings if this were the case, the Democratic party would be sure of that.
If it involves Russia, it'll either be mimicked here, or 'trumped' here.
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I am not a fan of Telegram as it does not work if you do not grant it access to your contacts list. No chat app should require access to your contacts list to function or work properly. The Chinese developed WeChat and with WeChat you can create a user ID. You can add and message people via WeChat ID. Your WeChat ID is your user ID.
Not sure how any company that boasts itself as a company who cares about your privacy creates an app that will not function unless you give it full access to your contacts list. Only an idiot would believe that. Like Facebook telling you that all their messages are safe and secure
Not sure how any company that boasts itself as a company who cares about your privacy creates an app that will not function unless you give it full access to your contacts list. Only an idiot would believe that. Like Facebook telling you that all their messages are safe and secure
Sometimes someone comes out with a phrase that rattles around and around in one’s mind at the weirdest times, like when waking up at 3:00 am to get a drink of water or go to the bathroom
“Traitorous Orange Nutsack” is one of those phrases. You need to trademark this. I think someone will be using it as a name for their garage band.
No instead he’ll have an interview with a coke and a smile apologizing band spitting excuses that take years to fix their security ... all while milking your children’s photos age location from pictures and FB posts. He may not poison you physically but he’s already done so to you mentally and selling your children’s location for any few paid ... I’d rather BE poisoned than have ANY child’s privacy or their parents concerns at risk and debated over with BS and PR spin tactics. He’s worse than a D!
The world is so small. ВКонтaкте was founded by the same Pavel Durov who is the owner of Telegram.
Let's face it - neither political party is a great protector of privacy, beyond certain individuals like Rand Paul.
As for your other comments, God bless you and your tin foil hat theories. Let's just wait for the investigation to conclude and then we can all move on, but by then I am guessing you will be finding something else to complain about, or some other cross-section of America to bash. So much for being an open and considerate party pressing for diversity in all aspects of our lives.
Yes. But the way you say it makes it sound he’s in bed with the Kremlin. The reality is that he was ousted from VK to be replaced by Putin’s boys in order for the government to keep complete control over it.