coming from the fact that this was a talk held at #39c3, maybe, just maybe, this was not about selling anything at all?!
i feel like that might be hard to grasp for some HN users.
i feel like that might be hard to grasp for some HN users.
Saying the quiet thing out loud because she can, and feels like she should, as someone with big audience. She doesn't have to do the whole "AI for everything and kitchen sink!" cargo-culting to keep stock prices up or any of that nonsense.
Lying to users by saying that signal doesn't collect or store anything when they actually do doesn't sound like something a company who expected you to trust them would do. It sounds like something a company might do if they needed a way to warn people away from using a service isn't safe to use while under a gag order.