Granted, the part

The globally recommended app by privacy and security experts, Signal, is now being downloaded massively and tops the Danish Google Play Store

is a little ironic, but you gotta push this winning tide and then work from that.

  • Vincent@feddit.nl
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    4 days ago

    How? The clients can only notice if the API works as specified. The server can constantly be replaced without anybody noticing.

    See the link I posted before about the secure enclave. (Note that I could’ve been clearer before: it’s not specifically the Signal client app that needs to detect server tampering; any software could.)

    So you know the problems of the servers.

    So what are you saying? Don’t use anything that has a server? (To be fair, I think it’s a good idea to have pure peer-to-peer apps installed as well, but for most situations that would still just come down to “do not communicate digitally at all”.)

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      4 days ago

      See the link I posted before

      Ok, that’s good.

      So what are you saying?

      That there is risk to rely on the server. It’s unavoidable but should not be neglected.

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        3 days ago

        Ah OK. If all you’re saying is “be aware of the risk while you use it”, then I can get behind that.