Arguments for Signal over Whatsapp, Messenger, and SnapChat
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xz backdoor rely on two testfile with malware, some script that do specific thing to malware to unmask and inject. If commit later change any part to break backdoor, signal probably forced to reject to keep backdoor.
But why reject good change? Might raise red flag.
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Maybe I’m the outlier but I have always failed to see chat history being very important. Realistically when is the last time you’ve combed through chat histories and why? If it’s to look for important information you can just write down the important parts and the rest is useless. I’m not trying to be elitist or anything I’m just genuinely curious hoping someone can explain this to me.
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WhatsApp shares who talks with who with governments. And uses that to put people on target lists and kill them.
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Just check news, Paragon case in Italy or other past security scandal.
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Technology and servers can get messed up. You are relying on software and hardware to keep stuff safe when the reality is it could fall over tomorrow and all your chat will be gone. Important info should be recorded elsewhere and backed up if need be. Just like in the old days before online chat existed. We survived just fine then and we can survive again without having 14 years of chat history or whatever.
Personally I always turn disappearing messages on in Signal. If my phone or computer was ever broken into, in would rather the perpetrators not have years of personal info and photos shared between my friends and family to do the gods know what with.
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Here's my main argument for more private services (I try to make all my arguments short).
According to a study done by proton, a single company makes a minimum of $200 dollars off of each person, each year. Of course, they probably gain more money via clandestine deals or the government buying data directly to get around the 4th amendment.
But that money, doesn't go solely to the companies dedicated to collecting data, or those parts of other companies. It goes to lobbying the government to strip away privacy further.
And then I have two endings, depending on the situation:
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Of course, I recognize that in today's connected world, I can't get privacy unless I go live in the woods. But I can decrease the amount of money companies make off my data, which I do like.
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Organizations like the EFF, lobby on the other side, for more privacy for us. But they are opposed by when massive companies like google also lobby. So when I deny google $100, that's money they can't use to lobby anymore. Rather than thinking of it as denying google money, think of it as making a donation to the EFF, that they use to ensure our rights are in place.
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that's a lot of arguments
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@[email protected] Do you still require help?
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No thanks.
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Yeah, but when signal complies they give date you made your account and when you last accessed. And that's it. Probably much less than the others give.
