Motorola is Lenovo. Lenovo is Motorola. You’re being needlessly pedantic.

Motorola does not have a mobile phone business

What do you call these?

Author has clearly never used an Apple TV…

I mean it seems like a no-brainer for OEMs. You can just turn over all your software development to a 3rd party, for free.

This is the only time 5G is useful

Pretty much the entire industry is siding with Anthropic though.

Every day I am more astounded that anyone voted for this absolute moron.

afaik servers are in USA

You mean one of the few countries not currently trying to dismantle encryption?

I don’t know who you’re working for but you’re going to have to do better than just ignoring and intentionally misrepresenting what I’m saying if you want to convince anyone.

Ah it’s this fuckin guy again. The source is the dozens of disclosures Signal posts publicly on their website with legal documentation.

You’re being blocked now, goodbye.

I agree, metadata collection and the obligatory matrix.org server are the biggest problems for privacy, but I don’t think you made that clear in your comment.

The only people who know this are people operating the server.

We all know this, for reasons I’ve already stated.

See the link I provided above.

Your link is broken.

Yup, that’s precisely what it’s a filter for.

100M people is not a filter…

Trust me bro is not a viable model

No one said anything about that? That is not the model.

The reality of the situation is that Signal asks users for information it has no business collecting

The business is connecting users. It’s one of the reasons it is the most viable private and secure chat platform. It’s why I have a dozen connections on Signal and literally 0 on every other platform. Because you actually know who’s using it. You can have the most private and secure messaging system in the world but if you can’t use it to actually chat with anyone, then what good is it?

Can it not be used that way?

By requiring phone numbers, Signal, despite its good encryption, inherently builds a social graph.

There’s no such social graph to speak of. Signal does not know who is speaking to whom.

A three-letter agency can take the map of connections

Three-letter agencies have served them legal subpoenas many many times and they never turn over anything more than the above information.

It’s a perfect filter: “Show me everyone paranoid enough to use crypto.” You’re basically raising your hand.

Filter for…what, exactly? The hundreds of millions of people who value private and secure communications?

So even if Signal’s intentions are pure, we’d never know how the data it collects is being used.

We do, because they publish them publicly.

What, are you talking about? “Information feed”? Where? By whom?

Remember when they arrested the creator of Telegram and forced him to hand over chat logs? Yeah, nothing to see here 🙈

Because of the implication…

Briar?

Oh, honey…

Google is not neutral, that doesn’t mean they invented the word or that the word itself is somehow inexplicably malicious.