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@david_chisnall
Signal point of failure.

@david_chisnall

And not only Signal themself can pull the plug.
DJT holds the #killSwitch in his hand, by means of his best bro Jeff B.

#WalledGarden is walled Garden. Better use sth. #free and #federated. #Jabber/#XMPP, Jami, Briar, Matrix, Delta, whatever.

@david_chisnall email isn't the best way to communicate for privacy, and besides, virtual sims exist. So i don't see a problem with this

@david_chisnall

Mastodon too! Bet @jerry never pulls out of anything.

@david_chisnall

It might be helpful to take into account that having local staff in a country (voluntarily, or forced by law) is different from just being "available" in a country.

Signal is investing a lot of effort into being available also in countries that outright suppress it. But they would not maintain a local point of representation there.

What exactly are you expecting, or demanding?

@david_chisnall Right, when Swiss Proton mail was adked by Seiss authorities to give info that those authorities then sent to the Anericans that had requested it, they did indeed not pull out. They instead participated…

@david_chisnall I am still shocked they had a global SPOF on AWS us-east1. its such a p2p/decen-amenable architecture at heart

@david_chisnall back in the day Google pulled out of China, man… those were the days!

@david_chisnall your reasoning is solid. And yet, I am old enough to remember being told by infosec friends to adopt Signal, way overkill for my infosec needs, to help normalize it so that people with keener needs than mine could hide among the normies. That worked, kind of, better than with PGP plugins on Thunderbird and such, anyway. So yes, you are right, but to some extent this was the result of a consciously made compromise and not a mistake. Or?

@david_chisnall your reasoning is solid. And yet, I am old enough to remember being told by infosec friends to adopt Signal, way overkill for my infosec needs, to help normalize it so that people with keener needs than mine could hide among the normies. That worked, kind of, better than with PGP plugins on Thunderbird and such, anyway. So yes, you are right, but to some extent this was the result of a consciously made compromise and not a mistake. Or?