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   Sophie Schmieg (sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 05:33:55 JST Sophie Schmieg

   • Matt Blaze

   @mattblaze even just minor UX improvements like Gmail marking external email addresses yellow are a good way of avoiding this type of issue. But that fundamentally relies on there being some concept of "external", i.e. they can only work if there is some defined organization as a context. Which for Signal simply does not make sense. It is an excellent tool, but it is the wrong tool for the job.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 05:33:55 JST Matt Blaze

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     @sophieschmieg exactly. The great thing about Signal is you can bootstrap with another user quickly and easily and without having to trust much about the infrastructure. And that makes it highly useful for lots of things. But totally the opposite of what you need to enforce a well defined centralized hierarchy.