https://lemmygrad.ml/c/alwaysthesamemap

No probs!

Capitalists control the political system of the US. Its not a democracy, it’s a capitalist dictatorship.

What health-care systems it used to have, were only to quell decades of worker struggles fighting for equivalent health care systems the USSR was putting in place in the 1920s.

No but someone should make one.

Syncthing was made for this and has been around for almost a decade now.

You have no idea what code their server is running, and its impossible to host your own signal since its a centralized service.

They went a whole year without publishing server code updates also, until they got a lot of backlash for it. Still, even publishing those is moot since its a centralized service.

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.

PRODUCT PITCH: Hey everyone, I have a great idea for a secure / private messaging service.

It’s hosted in the US, subject to its pervasive spying laws including national security letters.

Also I need all your phone numbers.

Also no you can’t host this yourself, I run the only server.

Everyone who uses signal and supports it, is falling for this pitch.

Your phone number is the biggest metadata you could possibly give (it means your real identity, including your current address), and signal has it.

Not true at all, you still need a phone number to sign up.

Give me ssh access to their centralized server so I can verify this “sealed sender” idea is working.

Otherwise this is a “trust me bro” claim.

Something being easy to use has nothing to do with privacy or security. Apple, just like signal, also sold it’s products as secure, yet they also were forwarding all communications to the US government as part of the prism program.

Signal is not a stepping stone, it’s a honey pot. Best to avoid US services that require your identity entirely.

That isn’t true. You still need a phone number to sign up.

Your entire social network graphs, and timestamped message history.

No one can “prove” signal doesn’t store everything. If you give me ssh access to their server, then I can verify. Otherwise it’s “just trust me bro”.

We know it’s an op, RFA does damage control for signal:

Libby Liu, president of Radio Free Asia stated:

Our primary interest is to make sure the extended OTF network and the Internet Freedom community are not spooked by the [Yasha Levine’s critical] article (no pun intended). Fortunately all the major players in the community are together in Valencia this week - and report out from there indicates they remain comfortable with OTF/RFA.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html

To do this effectively, they’d have to ban facebook/whatsapp, which are the two most popular chat apps in Europe.

CIA and the MIC for sacking Dulles, warming to Cuba, and indicating that he would slow down / put the brakes on interventions in Vietnam and SA.

JFK was still an anti-communist imperialist, but he increasingly thought the best strategy for winning the cold war, and getting the world to line up behind US wasn’t more war, but soft-power initiatives like the space race, and more equitable economic ties with global south countries. His disagreements with chancellor Dulles led to his killing, Dulles’ restoration, and Dulles heading the investigation of JFK’s murder.

Lahey and Hunter S Thompson don’t seem all that different.