• @woelkchen
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    35 days ago

    Good luck setting up your own server and convincing everybody else to use that.

    Signal is not federated. It relies on a central server, meaning for all intends and purposes Signal controls the entire chain.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 days ago

      End to end encrypted, I think chat control is all about client-side scanning so the app being open source is a big deal and would prevent client-side scanning because even if they build in client-side scanning, it’s open source and people can remove it.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 days ago

        Signal is pretty control freak-y, so would not be surprised if they can somehow prohibit third-party modifications entirely. That would be out-of-character for them, though, so doubt they would actually go through with this.

        Still, if that went through, I’d discount all the centralized solutions.

      • @woelkchen
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        15 days ago

        Just have the server link a hidden device, boom, all chats decrypted.