Exactly. These arguments are so weak that they read more like a smear campaign than an actual technical discussion.
"You have to agree to Apple's terms to use it"? What's Signal meant to do, jailbreak your phone before installing itself on it?
"You have to agree to Apple's terms to use it"? What's Signal meant to do, jailbreak your phone before installing itself on it?
Even if you do all that, it is not an official option, let alone a recommended one. The recommendation is to accept the google or apple terms of service.
Moxie even went as far as to say he would actively do anything in his power to discourage or stop the use of third party clients.
Potentially targeted users are set up to fail.
This criticism has absolutely zero substance and honestly just reads like paranoid rambling. The Signal protocol has been independently formally analyzed [1] and has no known security issues.
The specific part is that Signal forces Google and Apple on its users, and forces the specific kind of push notifications, too.
(You really have a lot of free time to write unsubstantiated dismissals to all my posts.)
Are you against using an Android (or LineageOS) emulator to do so?
> (You really have a lot of free time to write unsubstantiated dismissals to all my posts.)
You pop up in a lot of threads I'm interested in and seem to say a lot of incorrect things, that's all.
1. It's annoying and inconvenient.
2. It's the result of an artificial restriction by Moxie, for which I can't see any good reason, making me suspicious. In my opinion, this is basically an attack on true mobile freedom.
3. I do not believe in a good app isolation of Waydroid, so I would prefer to use as rare as possible. I also do not trust Android too much. And I will have to run two Signal apps simultaneously.
> so-called creator of some encryption protocol
All evidence points to him being one of the protocol’s designers, along with Trevor Perrin.
I’ve met both of them. The first time I met Moxie and talked about axolotl (as it was called back then) was in 2014. Moxie and Trevor strike me as having more integrity and conviction than most. There is no doubt in my mind that they are real and genuine.
Interestingly enough, some of the work Trevor did related to Signal’s cryptography was later used by Jason Donenfeld in the design of WireGuard.
> It screams honeypot like nothing else.
As you can see there is plenty of evidence suggesting otherwise.