The #FreedomOfSpeech folks. So much free speech. So free it can't be private. Everything must be public - or directly addressed to the office of the #Gestapo - I mean #DOGE.

#politics #signal #whispersystems #trump #elonmusk #nazi

Elon Musk's X blocks links to the messaging app that DOGE whistleblowers use to communicate - Neowin
https://www.neowin.net/news/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-the-messaging-app-that-doge-whistleblowers-use-to-communicate/

Elon Musk's X blocks links to the messaging app that DOGE whistleblowers use to communicate

Users on X noticed that the platform started blocking links to Signal, the encrypted messaging platform popular among DOGE whistleblowers.

Neowin
Canada set up spy posts around the world for the NSA | CBC News

A top secret document retrieved by American whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals Canada has set up covert spying posts around the world and conducted espionage against trading partners at the request of the U.S. National Security Agency.

CBC

Anyways, I apologize for the nostalgic/jaded perspective here - and it could be a dissimilar enough space that it won't matter.

Hopefully those with the keys make better decisions than we did.

#CyanogenMod #WhisperSystems #Signal #Mastodon

Moxie wrote an article about this I reference continuously when I'm thinking about designing distributed systems, and how the decisions you make early on could cause you vast issues in the future.

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

#fediverse #signal #cyanogenmod #whisperpush #whispersystems

Reflections: The ecosystem is moving

At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...

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Signal, der Messenger im Interview: bitte Fragen einreichen!

Wir bereiten ein Community-Interview mit dem datensparsamen Messenger Signal vor. Ihr habt jetzt 14 Tage Zeit, um eure Fragen einzureichen.

Tarnkappe.info
Anyone else noted the irony of a guy who sells a company called "#WhisperSystems" to a corporation for a few million $, then starts a new company called #OpenWhisperSystems with a product call #Signal, then threatens to sue anyone who calls a fork something like #LibreSignal?
@fsf seems to have failed to notice that #WhisperSystems has no interest whatsoever to get rid of reliance on proprietary Google software: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/voicevideochat !fs