Oddbean new post about login | logout How did a fight over the politics of who leads NPR lead to arguments that Signal’s encryption is somehow suspect? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal?CMP=share_btn_url
Signal chief of board of directors advocates for censorship. Signal’s mission is “speak freely”. This is what I would call signal sending mixed signals.
It's the guardian lol 'The rightwing activist and propaganda guru Chris Rufo helmed the crusade... Every effective smear campaign takes a grain of truth, then coats it in layers of innuendo...' It's smear campaign Vs smear campaign. It's smear campaigns all the way down lolol. I'm not really following the story tbh, but the guardian do also run smear campaigns obvs
It’s by Renee DiResta, the author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, and the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory. SIO does tons of good research.
The politics is all too tiresome. There remains an unanswered question. Meredith’s silence on the censor on the board is not great. nostr:note1ya3z243dyk0h085nzh5d89d39rtuqmenjeuh4tklrnjxg579a0ns6ym02s
Well, the way I look at it is, if you're taking Elon's side, you're wrong. Every fucking time.
I really don't know the situation but I assume both sides of smear campaign seesaw appeal the authority ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that's usually the case anyway. I was just pointing out that 'Every effective smear campaign takes a grain of truth, then coats it in layers of innuendo' Seems to also apply to the same article that makes this statement.(?)
https://youtu.be/J4tP_WDqg8Y Will watch this at some point. Not sure why people are taking about her CIA links(?lol) Seems like a curious figure tho 🫡
Truth can be found here: https://github.com/signalapp Everything else is bullshit
I find such debates somewhat useful. They can indicate people with reasoning I find poor, and help recognise reurgi-thinkers who don't seem to form their own opinions. Signal's insistence on mobile phone numbers falls foul of my threat model, so I don't use it. I do feel their crypto is good though. (They told me years ago they were going to do away with the need for mobile numbers. Crickets.)
And instead of just linking to the article here’s the author: @Renee DiResta here’s her post about it nostr:note1r57n6697h3s594m2xl0ek2wsuzzql9g99j50jyfn7vdxypfsjtxsgxc05e
A+ Rabble
Hacker Public Radio where everyone has an anon podcast capable of receiving V4V and no identification information of podcasters
Three things 1) I'm so glad I deleted my Twitter 2) not a fan of the Guardian but "the transitive property of bad people" was actually funny 3) the debate seems to boil down to this ... https://image.nostr.build/49e8d399ad8a9f8dd04fdafb21e6a0ebe0c5c569a468e4828ed6929609dda741.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a53172ba54dee313d58582fe66d94f3f2b98984ef2710b2ffc734d026eb4ae24.jpg
Right-wing Twitter in a nutshell: "OMG there are ppl in power who disagree with me how could this happen in a liberal democracy?" If Elon wasn't also actively agitating for Taiwan to become subservient to the CCP it would be a teensy bit more credible (I lean heavily right so this isn't a partisan observation)
> pointing out that Signal’s code is open-source All for a minor jab at Signal. Their servers are partially proprietary and technically could intercept your messages if you do not verify correct keys were swapped when adding someone. But compared to Telegram? Lol. Signals a million miles above Telegram's encryption and trustworthiness.
