Oddbean new post about login | logout Now do Signal 😂
What about it? I don’t use it.
All about privacy and uses phone # as identifier 🤡
I was tempted to get signal, is there a better alternative? I can’t seem to get people to use SimpleX so I’m stuck on telegram
That's always the problem. Stupid normies refusing to use private alternatives no matter how easy they are. This is the main reason UK's new law to bypass E2EE would be effective 🤦♂️
That law is basically DOA, proposed and voted on by people who don’t even understand the basics of what they’re talking about. They can pass it but it simply wouldn’t work without being completely gutted by the amount of necessary exceptions that would have to be added.
From my underatanding, it's effective because All it has to do is force Operating Systems to scan data on personal devices before encryption. So, Microsoft (Windows), Apple (iOS & macOS) and Google (Android w/GMS) would comply. Unless most people switch to small niche OS (e.g. niche Linux Distros or De-googled Android) that can't be forced to follow that law.
Well luckily the bill has been pulled because companies said the tech doesn’t exist to scan for illegal material without compromising privacy, and therefore threatened to remove products from the UK market. I’d love to see how our current government would cope without WhatsApp 😂