• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I have some skepticism about whether the worst will come to pass.

    Homosexuality has been illegal in the not too distant past as has “sodomy”

    I thought I also saw something about signal being an issue as well but I didn’t remember what the problem was. They did recently introduce usernames and the ability to keep your phone number secret. You still have to use a phone number to create an account. It’s also the app that is targeted the most by nation-states trying to decrypt it. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that it has been decrypted but they wouldn’t use that to go after the average person and only use it to spy on other countries.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 days ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that it has been decrypted

      I don’t think we need this sort of fear-mongering. Signal’s encryption is fully open source, it has been vetted by cryptographers far more experienced with this stuff than you or I. They even introduced, a few years back, an encryption algorithm that’s future-proof against quantum computing.

      All you are doing is potentially pushing people away from one of the few known-safe options. That’s the opposite of helpful.

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      15 days ago

      Thanks for the info on Signal. I’m under no illusions about the severity of our situation, truly. I know our history, and I know the history of fascism elsewhere. And I see what’s happening in front of us.