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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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Signal's servers are no longer open source for anti-spam reasons. (signal.org)

submitted 2 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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[–] PandaCoderPL@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

please do not fight it out here publicly.

@CHEFKOCH@lemmy.ml publicly accused me of harassing him so I felt it will be good to defend myself also publicly.

If you want to pick a fight, go do it in DMs or a realtime chat platform like Matrix or XMPP.

Of course that would be a better option but I didn't want to look like I'm avoiding his baseless accusations. If someone is calling me out publicly, they can be sure I will answer publicly as well.

All I see is a petty argument between you two, and getting riled up over what is typical privacy community drama. Do not make yourself another GrapheneOS vs CopperheadOS, it makes both look like fools.

I was only replying to that user and for me, the argument related to his past activity is over. Hopefully he will understand that and will also stop replying to me about that issue.

I appreciate that your reaction but I hope you will try to understand my point of view as well. Thank you in advance.