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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn’t Signal at least partially funded by the agency?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 months ago

No, they found some billionaires to do it 😉

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What part of non-profit and open-source do you not understand?

Review the source, build it yourself, be happy. It uses well-known assymetric encryption algorithms. Not much your agency could really do here even if they harvest all the traffic from the server.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was my fucking question about the integrity of the algorithms they use, or was it about who’s been funding the product? Because a quick web search will show you that they did in fact fund it at one point.

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

And so what? You could be an oil dictatorship prince and donate a billion to Signal. It's not going to compromise it in any way that is not directly auditable.

So, your fuckin question is misguided. You're "only asking questions" while implying intent.