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There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS (www.theverge.com)
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[–] undu@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago

Nevermimd that signal's centralisation makes it vulnerable to this kind of outage, and that was a conscious design decision. So nobody should be surprise this has happened.