Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...

A very cool write-up and breakdown of Signal’s expenses

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    26 days ago

    And their bullshit excuse for dropping SMS support.

    “It was too expensive from an engineering standpoint”. Nonsense, Android handled it, your app merely reads and writes to the SMS database via an API.

    Or are you telling me the free SMS apps like Handcent, QuickSMS, etc, had a massive engineering team?

    This is when I stopped using Signal, when this lie was so blatant, I can no longer trust them.

    • brrt@sh.itjust.works
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      26 days ago

      Old man yelling at clouds

      SMS is a dead technology as it should be. It’s not private or secure in any way and the apps you listed probably just don’t give a fuck about implementing it in a way that is.

      If Signal had just 1 person working on keeping it alive it would still be money that could be spent elsewhere. Like the username feature I had been patiently waiting for, which was delivered recently and is a great addition.