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mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mshelton/116214301513839946

article: https://signal.org/bigbrother/district-of-columbia/

context: https://technologymagazine.com/cloud-and-cybersecurity/protonmail-under-fire-over-data-handover

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[-] white_nrdy@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

I hate this sentiment. I was part of a bachelor party, and we had a group chat going. Had Android/iPhone users, so it was just a MMS chat. I suggested we use signal, and one of the iPhone users goes on a rant

"I'm not gonna use Signal. It's just a honeypot for the CIA. Why else would they fund it if they didn't get any value out of. It's obviously a honey pot"

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not gonna use Signal. It's just a honeypot for the CIA.

No you're thinking of telegram.

[-] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

So there is actually disinfo about it being funded by the CIA. I had heard it was, and tbh didn't care too much. I figured they funded it because they used it and got value. It's well audited so I trust it. Only learned it's disinfo when I looked for a source to include in my original reply

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/us-intelligences-services-control-the-signal-app/

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Do they think MMS is magically invisible?

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