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submitted 1 month ago by gytrash@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

"Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries..."

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[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

That's what you fail to understand. It's open source, it has been audited. Venezuela and any other country can check and crack the encryption if has holes in it. The long first paragraph is something that's not a secret, but widely known.

You know what's also safe? Encrypted emails. VPNs. Matrix.

If you think this is a movement against foreign agents, you should think it's useless too. For a sufficiently motivated agent, this will be trivial to overcome. For the general population? Not so much.

Unless next all forms of private communication re forbidden, of curse. Surely what people on a privacy community advocate for.

[-] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

well, except for all the times Signal just "forgets" to update the published source code of a year or so. Other than that its perfectly open source

[-] fira959@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Funded by the US? Well thats the entire internet, including Tor, Linux and Matrix…

Amazing how much BS is spread here

The only relevant part is the client, which as always been open source.

[-] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

The server is arguably more important, that is where the data and meta data itself are stored. Linux has never hid its source code for a year, and matrix can be self hosted.

I mean if you want to trust a honey pot go right ahead

[-] fira959@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago

More baseless nonsense

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