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[–] Dot@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean having a list of allowed clients.

As I said in my post, WhatsApp already enforce forbidding third party client and it seems to work well.

I don't see why wouldn't Signal improve the security of their users by implementing this, while upsetting the very few users who use third party clients.

[–] Dot@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (5 children)

There are already 2 third party forks I know of, Molly and Signal-JW.

They both use and access the main production Signal servers.

As I said, a compromise here would be to have a client security certification program, where no other clients outside it would be able to use Signal.

 
  • Signal forks can have unexpected behaviours like retaining deleted messages and also they don't get updated at the same rate that Signal get updated.

  • Every couple of years I hear a story about hackers disturbing signal with backdoors, which would be impossible or very hard to be done If they blocked third party clients. (Ex: 1)

  • The amount of people who use third party Signal clients are very few anyway.

I saw what WhatsApp did to forbid modification of it's app which works in stopping a lot of distributions, why doesn't Signal do the same?

[–] Dot@feddit.org 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

While I rather use more secure apps for following public channels, sadly they don't exist on other platforms.

[–] Dot@feddit.org 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Because I want to view and share only content that respect my freedom of use.

[–] Dot@feddit.org 19 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Because the article is licensed under free license (Creative Commons).

As long as the source prove to have enough credibility, I would always link to the freely licensed version over less freely licensed sources.

 

Other Sources:

Alleged Telegram Leak.

Edit 1: Replaced the lead article with a more comprehensive article.

[–] Dot@feddit.org 2 points 21 hours ago

I believe not, the foss release will make the app run in the background to check for notifications.

[–] Dot@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] Dot@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But that means that no one can post any new news websites, even if they are very credible.

This open the door for judging the unreviewed sources based on nothing.

I literally posted a article from UK government website today and I was surprised that it's not rated according to the media bias fact checker bot.

[–] Dot@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The irony of your comment.

"I don't like your comment so maybe you should not comment again you fascist"

[–] Dot@feddit.org -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What is your logic here?

All of this would take maximum less than a week to be reversed and paid by residents taxes.

And this is assuming they done it on thousands of cars, which I believe is not really something that happen in real life.

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