Comment on Signal is Flawed, Why XMPP is Amazing! (new animated video)
tux@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The US Military also uses IRC, is that the future too? I’m sick of the ridiculous Signal hate with basically no good reason. Basically everything is run in AWS, or Azure, or Google cloud. All the governments have contracts with those cloud providers, because almost every organization large enough has things in the cloud.
Obfuscation is not meant to be foolproof. Without something like the Tor network (oh wait, the NSA and other organizations have already taken over that) WHO you talk to is not hard to determine. If someone is monitoring ALL network traffic in the world, they’ll know who is talking to who everywhere. But with good end to end encryption and no server side logging recording who you talk to, that’s definitely a good enough combo for me.
XMPP is certainly not a bad protocol, but I’m not seeing a reason to justify the Signal hate.
LollerCorleone@kbin.social 9 months ago
Same! There is a lot of misinformed Signal bashing going on. I can't figure out why.
Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 9 months ago
If you conspiracy board right back at them, the conclusion I come to is that Signal is starting to see some market penetration into non-technical spaces and that's a problem for... someone. Dealer's choice for whom. So, time to spread some FUD.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 9 months ago
That’s just the privacy community. It has always attracted the crazies. Signal is not the only reasonable service that these people will attempt to spread paranoia and misinformation about.