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This is why you go European even if the company is open-source (therecord.media)
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[โ€“] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 62 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What exactly is Signal supposed to do here?

They're not supposed to be able to help in any way, how would they determine if a specific user is using Signal for phishing or whatever without decrypting their chats?

Being European would make zero difference here, unless the European service is backdoored.

[โ€“] gjoel@programming.dev 34 points 4 months ago

Yay, signal is great because they do everything in their power to not only not spy on you, but not be able to. But boo, they are bad, because they won't spy on other people for us!

[โ€“] harcesz@szmer.info 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This seems to be the only source for this information, while on the other hand I'm seeing this;

Wired: A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage

Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages. Signal has pushed out new safeguards.

[โ€“] Voyajer@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

That's not how that works

[โ€“] freeman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

A company can't be open source, software can.

Of that software requires significant infrastructure provided by a company you can't rely on the overall service. If not you self host or find community implementations.

There are plenty of untrustworthy Europeans as well, we should not uncritically switch to a European company.

[โ€“] klobuerschtler@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

What messaging service would you giys recommend?