> Again, I do not donate. I just send checks for thousands of dollars to OSS projects.
Well, I rest my case - kudos to you.
Of course, you as a business owner do make money from your business, so just donating privately remains a valid option.
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Well, I rest my case - kudos to you.
Of course, you as a business owner do make money from your business, so just donating privately remains a valid option.
Why aren't you allowed to donate?
> I routinely send key projects, particularly smaller projects, a request to quote me a ...
Sounds like an excuse to not donate - or did you ever get a response? Why not just donate $100 once and feel good about it?
How about this: "PHP Game Server". Nobody would care because PHP is just one of those stupid languages mostly known for being (merely) useful ;)
It's a recurring theme in science that the more we know the more we become aware how little we actually understand.
But the brain and it's embedding in the rest of the body and environment raises this phenomenon to a new level.
I think to some extent it shows that considering something to a certain restricted level as true until falsified is a valid approach. Because a lot of the things science is uncovering about our mental capabilities has been postulated for thousands of years by means of introspection and meditation.
They would find out anyway b/c your packets are sniffed on a regular basis and so they know your phone is communicating with the Signal server and maybe the packets itself are characteristic.
So in my humble opinion this criticism is irrelevant.
Your phone number is not your identity in Signal. If you change SIM cards then your friends won't notice and the app works as before.
Signal is based on asym encryption - your private key effectively encodes your identity in combination with your public key.
> And only if the first client is Android?
There is no point in dwelling on that. Android and its syblings are the only potentially secure popular smartphone OSs. Apple and Microsoft OSs are fundamentally flawed in that regard.
F.x. I installed a while ago Signal on my phone and recently went to another country where I used a different SIM card (hence a different phone number) and I could still use my Signal app as usual.
- LinkedIn: The worst of the worst ... :D
- HN / Reddit / Twitter: How do you share pictures privately with friends? (to name one necessary feature)
Seems like he changed his mind.
Next to WhatsApp I also have installed:
1. Signal
2. Threema
3. Telegram
And I will use those (in described order) if possible.
Threema seems to be comparatively popular in Germany, while Telegram is at least not among my peers and Signal (the one recommended by Schneier and Snowden) is only used by my gf (b/c I installed it for her).