I don’t find #Signal or #Telegram (which is worse, it’s basically a honeypot) to be particularly secure, but I don’t see anything other than something like those platforms catching on with the masses as a sort of #USA-centric #Whatsapp-style replacement for text messaging.
Both #Apple and #Google need to come up with a consensus on the successor for #MMS, or else I could see another platform or app replacing both.
There are two legitimate concerns about Signal: they use real phone numbers as identifiers, and you have to trust Signal as the server operator as they don’t allow their client to be used with other servers. While the server software is also open source, you have to trust that they’re running the same version in production.
I agree; however, the second point I don’t see as Signal specific. In any service, how do you verify that a server is running unmodified open source code? For the vast majority of people, they are also depending upon the client being unmodified.
@RandomBit @jmcs I prefer #Matrix.
I don’t find #Signal or #Telegram (which is worse, it’s basically a honeypot) to be particularly secure, but I don’t see anything other than something like those platforms catching on with the masses as a sort of #USA-centric #Whatsapp-style replacement for text messaging.
Both #Apple and #Google need to come up with a consensus on the successor for #MMS, or else I could see another platform or app replacing both.
What security issues does Signal have?
There are two legitimate concerns about Signal: they use real phone numbers as identifiers, and you have to trust Signal as the server operator as they don’t allow their client to be used with other servers. While the server software is also open source, you have to trust that they’re running the same version in production.
I agree; however, the second point I don’t see as Signal specific. In any service, how do you verify that a server is running unmodified open source code? For the vast majority of people, they are also depending upon the client being unmodified.
With e2e encryption, you don’t need to trust the server, you only need to trust the clients.
@RandomBit I’m not aware of exactly what issues #Signal has, but I know it’s centralized so I’m not a big fan of that
Yes, it’s not ideal. Decentralized key distribution seems to be a intractable problem for mass adoption.
@RandomBit That said if #Signal ever supports #RCS I’d strongly consider getting it, since half my siblings are on #RCS
Sort of off topic but are you replying from Mastodon?
@pootedesu Yep!
That is pretty cool. I’m just figuring out how this all works so seeing 2 platforms melding into one comment thread is still like magic to me.