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   • Meredith Whittaker

   Meredith Whittaker sur X @Mer__edith

   The French PM is mandating ministers use a small French messaging app. OK.

   But I’m alarmed that she’s claiming “security flaws” in Signal (et al) to justify the move.

   This claim is not backed by any evidence, and is dangerously misleading esp. coming from gov.

   #signal #signalapp
   🔗 https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1730207726180204885?s=20

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     • Meredith Whittaker

     @mathdatech1 @Mer__edith

     The "no central directory", acountless idea of olvid has merit but I hope Borne plans to kick in some funds to help development because per olvid they need internal docs:

     ”As of now, the code is not fully documented and contains very few comments. Still, some aspects of it are very advanced and might be hard getting into. We encourage you to read the code, understand it and make your own modifications and additions. But keep in mind that some mechanisms are rather "fragile" and might break easily 🥚🥚🥚."

     (https://github.com/olvid-io/olvid-android)

     And lacks desktop client source, or any Linux desktop client.

     It sounds like she's just dumped a lot of attention (and de facto labour) on a young OSS project.

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     • Meredith Whittaker

     @Mer__edith

     Meredith Whittaker sur X

     If you want to use a French product go for it! But don’t spread misinfo in the process.

     Signal is independently audited, open source, and our protocol has been tested for >10yrs.

     We are serious about responsible disclosure and we prioritize all reports to security@signal.org

     🔗 https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1730207730223444469

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     @mathdatech1 Oh, correction, they're an accelerator funded startup and Île-de-France has at some point coughed up €€€.

     https://olvid.io/team/en/

     They also haven't open sourced their server code anywhere I can see. Meh.