A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.
A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.
Signal is right there.
Signal is centrally hosted thus it’s proverbial rug can be pulled.
Wait until you find out about internet service providers
You can have more than one dumb pipe to push bits through, but if the ISP can read your network traffic then you have bigger problems than a single-point-of-failure.
Do you have more than one ISP?
I’m very lucky in that regard. Not only do we have a local ISP and mobile service from a national carrier, but the electric co-op that provides our power just ran 2.5Gb/s fiber through the neighborhood and lets members use 200Mb/s on it for free.
Who doesn’t?
For the most part the ISP doesn’t have a way to know you are using VoIP to contact people in a particular country (unless you are using a VoIP service owned by the ISP of course).
True. Yet another linchpin.
Edit: spelling.
and Threema
Threema is what signal should have been.
But I ain’t got in me to start forcing people again lol
Signal it is until it is proven untrustworthy
Yeah, they’re both good (still).
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-downplays-encryption-key-flaw-fixes-it-after-x-drama/
They fucked up so badly, Elon Musk was right for once.
Wasn’t Elon Musk trying to push Telegram?
That wouldn’t shock me, but he was right that Signal was not addressing a known vulnerability. In fact, denying that it even was a vulnerability.
For what it’s worth, I trust Telegram even less than Signal. And at least Signal seems to be finally doing something about the problem.
Damn that’s bad, and Signal’s response was even worse. They knew about it in 2018, for 6 years.
I always felt like signal is there more to satisfy a niche so people feel like their whatsapp is good enough.
Leadership makes some odd chocies IMHO