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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Signal's servers are no longer open source for anti-spam reasons. (signal.org)

submitted 3 years ago by ramberry@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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We build Signal in the open, with publicly available source code for our applications and servers. To keep Signal a free global communication service without spam, we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private: a system for detecting and disrupting spam campaigns. Unlike encryption protocols, which are designed to be provably secure even if everyone knows how they work, spam detection is an ongoing chore for which there is no concrete resolution and for which transparency is a major disadvantage.

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[–] CHEFKOCH@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I already made my point.

Signal is dead - at least for the Lemmy community, among other communities like degoogle. There is nothing to argue about it, closed source ... end of story. There is nothing to fight or to discuss over it.
You can use XMPP with encryption already, and hold on to it. Nothing wrong with it, I also expressed that already, or you move on and use alternative stuff.
We had such discussions here on Lemmy now, the first comment or what already showed a link to the same discussion.

I can take criticism, it was just to make my point how useless the discussion here has become.

I request again here in public to lock the topic because the bias on this is very strong and people do not let it go even if you prove them wrong.