"PR people pitch profiles to writers" is very different from...oh, what did you write? "From everything I personally know about the media, articles like that are usually paid for..."
The former is normal journalism. The latter is an ethical breach. So, yes, let's talk about tone for a moment: in your post, you accused multiple people of ethical or legal breaches, on the basis of, oh...your feelings?
Very respectful of you! Yes, my "tone" is direct. But I didn't accuse you of anything unethical, did I?
> I do use my real name for whatever it's worth, I have absolutely no problem wearing these statements on my sleeve
Hahah, OK then.
> I'm really happy you took the the time to respond to me though
Oh, but I did. As far as I can tell, you made one, and only one, technical claim: that Signal's reproducible builds aren't useful because they don't cover the NDK code. I asked you, twice now,
"As I said, in which codebase does the key verification and encryption live--is it in the native code, or in the Java code? I suspect you don't know, or you don't know why that matters."
You have twice now failed to reply to that. Care to try for a third time?
Edit: Seems like Signal's reproducible builds now do cover native code, though I haven't tried this myself: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod....
So, like...what was your point again? Other than that you don't know what you're talking about?