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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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NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world
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Isn’t Signal at least partially funded by the agency?

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poVoq@slrpnk.net
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No, they found some billionaires to do it 😉

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where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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What part of non-profit and open-source do you not understand?

Review the source, build it yourself, be happy. It uses well-known assymetric encryption algorithms. Not much your agency could really do here even if they harvest all the traffic from the server.

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NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world
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Was my fucking question about the integrity of the algorithms they use, or was it about who’s been funding the product? Because a quick web search will show you that they did in fact fund it at one point.

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where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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And so what? You could be an oil dictatorship prince and donate a billion to Signal. It’s not going to compromise it in any way that is not directly auditable.

So, your fuckin question is misguided. You’re “only asking questions” while implying intent.

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