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Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema (threema.ch)

submitted 6 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Let's be honest, Signal is not perfect either:

It requires your phone number
It has had some suspicious funding sources
(UPD: It was funded by CIA)
(UPD2: Here I will quote www.securemessagingapps.com:

This matters because “money talks”, as the saying goes. If the company or person behind the money is likely to have reason not to protect customers’ privacy, it’s important to know. This could be indicative of the company not doing as they say (Google, Whatsapp, for example) or changing their mind once they’ve onboarded enough customers from whom they can make money.

It has incidents (at least once) when backend code hasn't been updated for almost a half year or so
((UPD)Source: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signal-isnt-as-open-source-as-you-thought-it-was-anymore/#update-2021-04-06-1-39pm-pdt-by-ryne-hager)

~~(I'm gonna find sources for the last two statements a bit later to not be unsubstantiated)~~
Done.

Although, we all can agree, that Signal is still better than Telegram, or WhatsApp, or Threema, or whatever.
Still, we probably want to look at the better alternatives, like Simplex or Session.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

suspicious funding

Which lines of its libre software source code are malicious?

requires your phone number

It's centralised

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which lines of its libre software source code are malicious?

It's not about code, but about funding.

It's centralised

Yes, and it's the downside, no matter how you look at it.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So, which malicious lines of libre software source code have been funded? This is how we stop FUD. Don't let them derail us.

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong. As far as we know, no malicious code have been funded. The very fact that the Signal was sponsored by the CIA is suspicious (maybe I used some incorrect words, sorry if so). Of course, it's totally up to you whether you think that fact is sus or not.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

It's not. Our devices run software, not funding.