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| voltsandjolts:
Or just being a Uyghur |
| Zucca:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 13, 2021, 09:47:06 am ---Telegram is a child's toy compared to the likes of Signal (and far less popular in my experience). --- End quote --- It's hard to stop children to play with toys. In my contacts only 10% have Signal and it is not moving since months, about 40% Telegram and going up quickly. 100% has bloody Whatsapp. |
| RenThraysk:
--- Quote from: voltsandjolts on January 13, 2021, 12:35:44 pm ---Or just being a Uyghur --- End quote --- Yeah, Signal actually got initial funding from Radio Free Asia, which also provides the only Uygur language radio station outside of China. And was fundamental in exposing the re-education camps. |
| SVFeingold:
--- Quote from: RenThraysk on January 13, 2021, 12:33:29 pm ---This argument is based on your privilege of living in a relatively free country. In a country where say being gay, or atheist, or an activist will get the attention of the government and get yourself jailed or worse executed, choosing the right messenger is critical. So no need of nonsense about state secrets or nuclear launch codes. --- End quote --- Very true. And I'm sure that most of the people bugging their friends about using this cool new open-source encrypted messenger that they discovered are in that boat. It should be clear enough from this thread that the context of most of these discussions is that of a privileged free country. For those who aren't privileged in this way the issue nowadays won't so much be the strength of encryption but the government-mandated backdoors in the services that silently agree to put them in. And whether VSee has updated their blog in a few years or not has little relevance to that problem. Open-source does not automatically mean "secure." And anyway, my post was pointing that most people don't have strong enough reasons to care about encryption to learn how to verify checksums and sideload apps. Which they don't. If an easy-to-use and popular app comes along that can already do the things they want it to, AND it happens to have some good encryption, then people might eventually use it. Those who DO have strong reasons - like those you mentioned - will be much more inclined to learn those things and take those steps. They're already sold on the idea. |
| BravoV:
--- Quote from: RenThraysk on January 13, 2021, 01:34:00 pm --- --- Quote from: voltsandjolts on January 13, 2021, 12:35:44 pm ---Or just being a Uyghur --- End quote --- Yeah, Signal actually got initial funding from Radio Free Asia, which also provides the only Uygur language radio station outside of China. And was fundamental in exposing the re-education camps. --- End quote --- How about the Southern Yemen people that have been butchered that even UN raised the concern of devastating human right violation there ? Or the Catalan movement in Spain that get suppressed for independence, you guys are interested too or sympathizers ? ::) Or how about the latest incident last week at Capitol, Washington, where so called Democracy Warrior was gunned down to death, cold bloodedly by the Capitol police, just because she just tried to push a door. C'mon, please, stop drifting into politic. |
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