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    davel@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months ago

    JWZ weighs in on Signal again

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    JWZ weighs in on Signal again

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    davel@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months ago
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    Signal
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    Because of the ongoing fucktastrophe, the cries of "Use SIGNAL!" are constant and unavoidable. And I get it, it may be the least-bad option in a sea of terrible options. If, that is, you choose to ignore the advice of "don't use your phone for that shit" (the Stringer Bell Rule). But out of curiosity, because I haven't been keeping up, has the Signal Corporation addressed: The fact that they ...

    JWZ previously:

    • https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/08/signal/
    • https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/03/signal-leaks-your-phone-number-to-everyone-in-your-contacts/

    See also: Why not Signal?

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      Among many other things, the person who created Mozilla/Firefox.

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        Thanks! I only knew them as yelling, cursing, and attacking others on mastodon person

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          He’s old and cranky like me 🤷

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            Haha! How did you simpsonify a photo of yourself?? That’s so cool!

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          I know him as the guy who made his webserver respond to everything with a ballsack in an eggcup if your Referer is hacker news. Seems childish

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        More like one of many developers

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          Obviously. But it wouldn’t have happened at all without him.

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