i’ve just seen a comment in a post, in this very community, saying people trust signal because of missinformation (from what i could undertand).

if this is true, then i have a few questions:

-what menssaging app should i use for secure communications? i need an app that balances simplicity and security.

-how to explain it to my friends who use signal because i recomended?

-what this means for other apps in general?

  • Spacenut@lemmy.world
    7·
    22 hours ago

    This doesn’t really make sense to me, what do you mean? Client-side you do different computation for sealed sender delivery/receipt. What’s your normal standard of trust that a hosted, open source project is running the same code that they’ve made public?

    I think if they store any metadata that we don’t know about, the lie runs very very deep, like to conspiracy theory levels that don’t really make sense for a registered nonprofit: https://signal.org/bigbrother/

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      71·
      19 hours ago

      What’s your normal standard of trust that a hosted, open source project is running the same code that they’ve made public?

      Its a centralized service, you have no idea what code they’re running. You can’t host your own.

      Also they went a whole year one time without publishing any server code updates until they got a lot of backlash for it. Still, since its centralized, it can’t be trusted to be running what they say they are.