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- Prison time here in Germany is limited to 15 years at max

- People imprisoned for violent crimes may stay there for their whole life if they pose an ongoing threat to public safety.

So... Germany DOES have a life sentence. Kinda misleading to state it doesn't.

That's one of my favorite quotes. I can really relate to it.

> Another particularly heinous violation is that the signal app has code in it that slows it's functionality if the version is out of date, pressuring you to update.

Can you show me more info or the offending code?

> Just how many times can you go through the emulator dance of downloading all the games then playing each for less than 3 minutes before you give up.

What makes this any different?

> Might be troublesome if you don't want the other person to know it's you, though.

You're mixing privacy and anonymity. Signal offers privacy from snooping, they have never claimed or tried to provide anonymity. Two very different use cases.

> Not really needed when your IME is spying on you. Signal in such an arrangement becomes security theater.

This is not a signal issue. Literally every single app that gets user input from a keyboard suffers from this issue. Saying this is a signal issue is like saying flat tires are a ford issue.

> >free and open source > Want to also point out that months go by without server code being published:

Is there some unwritten rule that a open source project must publish code every x days to be considered open source? All of signals code has always been open source and always will be.

> Also, when users protested reliance on Google's store, analytics

Analytics? Care to show me where they ever used them? 99% sure they have never used them.

> Moxie chose to attack the forks

It takes a lot of money and man hours to maintain the servers and infrastructure for signal, why should OWS pay for other projects to use it? Signal is 100% open source, if someone thinks they can create a better replacement... They are free to take all of signals code and make their own app. But don't expect OWS to pay for the infrastructure and let them leech.

What if it's not about making the enemy believe in aliens, but making the enemy believe there is technology available that is "other worldly" advanced. Basically a psyop.

To me, it sounds like BBC knows more then they let on. Could BBC have been running a undercover investigative story? It just seems too unlikely they could get the hitmans bitcoin address without being somehow involved.

> Can you sideload via Play Store apps?

Yup. Check out aurora store. It's a open source frontend to the google play store. All apps can be installed(except of course paid apps. Though if you bought the app and sign in to the account with aurora you can)

Telegram does not care about your privacy. It's always been an after thought. Of course they would implement non privacy respecting payments.

Signal is all about privacy. It trumps everything else. There are no "mainstream" payment options that align with their privacy requirements.

It's not a 1:1 comparison. They both want to achieve the same goal(payment integration) buy have vastly different requirements.

Signal is still a secure messaging app. Signal will always be a secure messaging app. They have ignored feature requests to maintain secure/private messaging. Secure communication is paramount to signal.

There is 0 evidence signal is diverging from being a secure messaging app. Are they adding non-chat related features? Yes. Are they making their app any less of a secure chat platform? Absolutely not.

None of that is Roku's problem. It's googles problem. Google is trying to make it rokus problem.

My latest gen firetv stick 4k has no Netflix button(or any app buttons)

https://static.slickdealscdn.com/attachment/2/5/1/6/8/8/6/78...

This is exactly what the cable co's want. F em. I'll either pay for the services or pirate the content. I will never let the cable co's "win". They are terrible, horrible, corrupt, money grubbing soulless corporations who have screwed over the masses for long enough.

I never mentioned Sicknick and was not referring to him. There is literally video of insurrectionists attacking police with a fire extinguisher.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQuJrLTB-M

You are absolutely incorrect. Being armed has nothing to do with firearms.

Definitions: Armed - Bearing arms; furnished with means of offense and defense: as, an armed force or ship; “the armed rhinoceros,”

Arms - Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.

You absolutely can be charged with "armed robbery" without having a firearm. Using your bank example, here is a "armed bank robbery" where the suspect used a knife. https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-armed-bank-robbery-k...

Educate yourself if you are going to argue.

They are not putting malware into their app. They are adding athletically pleasing files to their app. Is it Signals fault if someone else's software doesn't work properly with them? How can Signal test every piece of software to make sure it's compatible with their own software? Especially when the other software is using Signal in a unintended way.

It's not signals job to secure 3rd party software, that's entirely on the 3rd party.

It's about casting doubt on their software and it's trustworthyness.

In computer forensics it's ALL about being able to verify, without a shadow of doubt that something is what they say it is. Chain of custody rules everything. This blasts a huge gaping hole in all that. He's proven that chain of custody can be tampered with and undetected. Files can be planted, altered or erased. Reports can altered. Timestamps can be changed. The host OS can be exploited. It calls all past and future cellbrite reports into question. Cellbrite can no longer guaranty their software acts in a consistent reliable verifiable way. It leaves doubt.

Armed does not just mean firearms. You can be armed with....let's say a flagpole or fire extinguisher(both were used as weapons against the police by the insurrectionists)

What counties are you referring to that had irregularities and were not audited that would have changed the outcome of the election?

> I mean he’s just saying what he believes, he could be very well be right, we don’t know.

Except he is NOT right and we DO know. The election was NOT rigged or stolen from him. He lost. Plain and simple.

Except it's not enabled or visible by default. It will take the user navigating the settings to enable it. We all know non-tech users rarely if ever change default settings they don't understand.

...there code always has and continues to be open source.

Is there some law that states a project must publish X code changes in Y timespan?

The people screaming the loudest about how signal is bad for x reason always seem to be the ones recommending y(usually matrix) that suffers the same issue.

> Signal where they touted the benefits of fully opting into the Google ecosystem - the gist was that Google has expended all of this effort on security and they wanted to take advantage of it to bring security to the masses

What exactly do they rely on google for? They use them for their push notifications and they use some google servers on the back end.

They do offer the app on the app store as 99% of android users get their apps that way, but signal also offers app downloads from the signal website if the user doesn't want to use play store.

...it's software is open source.

That's a bold claim with 0 data to back that up. What are your sources for believing it's received a love letter?

> The server implementation however is only based on trust in the people running the servers.

They literally chose a zero server trust model when designing the protocol. NSA could be running modified signal servers and it wouldn't make a difference. Your messages would still be safe since all the magic happens on the clients. The servers just route the encrypted data, it's all just 1's and 0's to them.

> And there, openness about the code at least gives a few hints about what is going on there, enabling me to trust at least a little more than not-at-all.

Do we even know if signal was running updated server code in production? Maybe they have been running the same code that was on github this whole time.

Both the server code and client code are open source. You're absolutely free to take them, modifly them, and do whatever you want with them. You're free to make your own fork and create your own chat service.

However, signal won't (and had not obligation to) provide your forks infrastructure. It costs money and time to maintain servers and they don't want 3rd party projects leeching their resources.

Again, your free to take their open source code and modify it and stand up your own infrastructure. If you do, you'll end up with your own chat service.

I haven't seen any sources to back that up. Just that one comment claiming those facts.