F-Droid has received funds from US Congress (via OTF), just like Signal
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Depends what the funding is for. If it’s payment for compliance with CALEA (which has become a major revenue stream for big tech), then it’s compensation for building backdoors.
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I don't consider those to be useful anymore because a court can compel them to keep the canary up in secret, and I'm pretty sure that's already happened more than once before.
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That's never happened in history
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How would you know?
You probably wouldn't have heard about it simply because it's illegal to publicize a secret subpoena/warrant. Such orders are given as National Security Letters with a permanent gag order, going so far as to preventing the recipient from even seeking counsel; it's a massive abuse of power and due process in the US to get companies to lie and do whatever they want.
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I don't think I could restate this any better. So many people hear about "logical brain" and "emotional brain" and just start trying to eliminate any emotion from logic.
Brother the entire reason we invented homes was because we didn't fuckin like the alternative. But if we used logic way back in cave man time, it would have been more individually efficient to burn those logs for warmth. It took emotions to get us to the next step and then realise that it was more systemically efficient to burn logs inside of a little cabin and only then could we start applying logic to housing.
Emotions are so important
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Oh no, I're received funding (welfare) from the governemnt, guess I'm a CIA asset now...
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Noob question: are tye people saying "gov funding = NSA" mostly American?
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F-Droid needs to be audited to make sure no backdoors have been installed. Otherwise funding FOSS is one of the few good things any government can do.
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Whatever fed.
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If this is the equivalent of Germany's STF, then I'm all for it.
