@grin @edri @euronews @signalapp @fdroidorg
That's why they do collect #PhoneNumbers: as to allow bith #MassSurveillance and #TargetedSurveillance based off #Metadata, and that metadata is being used to murder people, as admitted by the #NSA.
So don't be a fool, m8!
https://mastodon.grin.hu/@grin/111136228537875555
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] You are asking why ServiceA is not ServiceB instead. Why a centralised service is not decentralised? Why a service chosen phone numbers as external verification doesn't do it differently? If you dislike Signal, use something else, don't try to tell them to change their service. You may make suggestions, but demands aren't the way it's working.
#10yrsago #Lavabit competitor #SilentCircle shuts down its secure email service, destroys servers https://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/to-our-customers/
#10yrsago Bikram “Yoga” Choudhury accused of rape, sexual harassment, racism, homophobia, and unsafe practices related to the color green https://jezebel.com/bikram-yoga-founder-hates-sluts-and-fatties-loves-talk-1068127138
#10yrsago More on the #NSA’s weird, deceptive, indefensible definition of “#TargetedSurveillance” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-it-means-be-target-or-why-we-once-again-stopped-believing-government-and-once
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@wonkothesane @vantablack not even close.
#Crawlers can be detected very well and usially blocked or at least throttled down to be less effective than single, human users.
Whereas #Federation inevitably necessitates to allow access to huge amounts of data, even if it's just public posts and profiles...
But still, that is valuable #MassSurveillance that #NSA wants to gather and sell to any #SurveillanceState, as it's more cost-effective than #targetedSurveillance necessitating operator hours.
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