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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong(www.wired.com)

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sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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are you talking about phone notification bullshit and google got caught reporting to government with no warrants.

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Signal’s defaults are pretty good about that. Push notifications are both opt-in and the information they send can be selected by the user. You can have it say “new message” and that’s it. Or the senders name. Or the whole message.

I agree that it’s not intuitive that that’s a leak to most people, but push notifications are kind of wonky how they work.

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signal is all around very strong… my main criticism is the “trust signal bro” cult pretending like Signal would not log chats if ordered by the spooks. which is naive AF and feels like they are trying to make normeis comfortable so they don’t demand better.

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