It was a good in between step for non technical users to use it as their singular texting app. So while they still SMS with the unwashed masses, they could still be convinced to do encrypted texts and group chats with others. Doing away with SMS forced all these people off Signal since they didn’t want to jump between 2 apps, it was a huge misstep by them that I think cost then their future.
Uhhh THAT’S a broad brush… I use it, and I’m as far lefty left as left liberal can be, and my family is the same. And none of us are pedophiles to my knowledge.
I can understand OP’s desire to not plaster one’s entire living situation on a public forum. The startling lack of privacy awareness among people in general is frightening. In the 60’s there were actual riots over wiretaps on public phones!
Now we ask the wiretaps that we pay to put in our homes: “hey Alexa, can cats eat pancakes?”
Signal does suck, especially since it doesn’t support sms anymore.
Sucks but it’s the best we got
I don’t disagree, I’m just not going to bitch about not understanding why folks don’t want to install yet another messaging app
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It was a good in between step for non technical users to use it as their singular texting app. So while they still SMS with the unwashed masses, they could still be convinced to do encrypted texts and group chats with others. Doing away with SMS forced all these people off Signal since they didn’t want to jump between 2 apps, it was a huge misstep by them that I think cost then their future.
Yes. It lets you still talk with everyone else who isn’t going to care.
And it’s exclusively used by pedophiles and the far right.
Uhhh THAT’S a broad brush… I use it, and I’m as far lefty left as left liberal can be, and my family is the same. And none of us are pedophiles to my knowledge.
I can understand OP’s desire to not plaster one’s entire living situation on a public forum. The startling lack of privacy awareness among people in general is frightening. In the 60’s there were actual riots over wiretaps on public phones!
Now we ask the wiretaps that we pay to put in our homes: “hey Alexa, can cats eat pancakes?”
Liberal is central… left leaning central.
Alexa isn’t an example of a wiretap and the same laws to access data from them are present with actual wiretaps.
I have a Juris Doctorate in surveillance law in Canada and completed Modern Surveillance Law through Standford.
Literalists…
Exclusively? I wasn’t aware they were the only ones who cared about end to end encryption.
Well that escalated quickly…
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