The uae is a huge concern. Their terms demand they get to see your code. When the vPBX company I worked for tried to get into the uae, it was a 10mil boondoggle that ended up ruining them.
Comment on Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Without end-to-end encryption, huge numbers of vulnerable targets, and servers located in the UAE? Seems like that would be a security nightmare,” Matthew Green, a cryptography expert at Johns Hopkins University, told TechCrunch. (Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn disputed this, saying it has no data centers in the UAE.)
good job Remi, that was the main concern lmao
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
so it’s a concern for the company, not the users, you’re saying?
MMNT@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just use signal ffs.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Signal sucks from a UI/UX standpoint, when they dropped SMS support I lost any ability to convince people to switch, and everyone who had already switched left.
Then there’s the seamless switching between devices…which it doesn’t do.
Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Using SMS through signal defeats the purpose of signal…
The UI is fine, what more do you expect out of it? It has a list of chats, a menu button with menu options, like it’s a messaging app not a social media platform akin to discord or telegram.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m a signal donor and while I disagree with your point regarding UI (have you used in the past couple of years? It’s went from feeling dated to feeling pretty modern), yeah the SMS thing is a joke.
Even worse, though, is that the EU offered them the opportunity to become relevant on a silver platter, by forcing WhatsApp to open up their app and be cross-platform with others who want to. Signal said no thanks.
I get it, WhatsApp stores metadata, and Signal doesn’t like that. But they were fine with (way way worse) SMS for a while? The day Signal chose that path was the day Signal willingly chose to be irrelevant for the vast vast vast majority of people.
pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
… agreeing to be directly compatible with Whatsapp would mean they agree to surrender the privacy for every single instance of Signal-WhatsApp communication.
If the whole reason for your existence is privacy, it seems that it would be an existential danger to create a partnership with the implicit understanding that it will destroy privacy.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
don’t have to tell me that, I even donate to signal