SignalNov 16, 2023

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive

Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...

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We’re doing this to provide transparency into Signal, and to make clear why our choice of nonprofit status isn’t just nice to have, but a fundamental safeguard against the pressures of a profitable business model that fundamentally contradicts our stance on privacy.
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By being transparent about Signal, we also hope to shed light on the industry. We show how expensive the development of high- availability consumer tech is & by implication the massive profitability of the surveillance business model underwriting most tech.
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We also believe it is imperative to build alternatives to the current tech ecosystem & its reliance on surveillance. And building these alternatives requires understanding the political economy of the industry, so we don’t mistake an elegant idea for a realistic possibility.

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Show thread𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕕𝕠𝕨 Nov 16, 2023
@signalapp @signalapp how about an update to assign an ID like Session so we have the option of not linking phone numbers?
Show threadStefan LeibfarthNov 16, 2023
@UltimusShadow https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866?u=leibi @signalapp
Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)

Hey, all! If you’ve been following along with the commit messages across our repositories, it’s no secret that we’ve been working on bringing Usernames to Signal for a while now. After rounds of internal testing, we have hit the point where we think the community that powers these forums can help us test even further before public launch. To do so, we’d first like to invite you to test in Staging. Think of The Staging Environment as a parallel Signal universe: you’ll need to install and run a ...

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@leibi @signalapp thank you for the link!
Nov 17, 2023 at 8:15pmWeb