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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 11:47:36 JST feld
   Signal won't work if the government shuts down their servers or forces them out of the country. And everyone trusting them will get what they deserve.
   
   If you can't self-host it I don't think you can claim it's really secure or reliable.
   
   Rembember:
   
   You can't trust corporations to host your cloud
   
   You certainly can't trust corporations with your sensitive/private data
   
   And you definitely can't trust corporations to run single points of failure for your secure messengers
   
   TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR DIGITAL LIFE BACK OR FIND SOMEONE YOU TRUST WHO CAN HELP
   
   RT: https://friedcheese.us/objects/fdf3ffa3-3839-4e1f-9350-e4fc80d7a42c
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 11:56:51 JST feld

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     • Wary Jerry
     @jerry I think it's too early to tell who/what is going to be targeted but this is going to be the second fight over the right to have encryption. DJB must be spinning in his office chair.
     
     But if Signal isn't attacked from the front I still think there's a chance they'll get attacked from the back. The CIA had some level of involvement in the creation of Signal and that has always left a bad taste in my mouth.
     
     The same org (Open Technology Fund, an offshoot of the CIA's Radio Free Asia) also funded other projects like Tor and Wireguard, but those are fully open source and Signal is not. We don't know what they could be putting in the officially published clients on the app store or what's lurking in the server codebase.
     
     I think we need to be vigilant and demand more transparency from Signal tbh.
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     Wary Jerry (jerry@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 11:56:52 JST Wary Jerry

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     @feld I’ve seen a bunch of consternation lately about the USG going after signal. Is there something specific driving that?