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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 12:20:35 EST Strypey

   Someone on #HackerNews falls into a typical black/white fallacy about computer security:
   "If you are so concerned about state-level actors that play store is untenable to you, signal and android on commodity hardware are probably not the solutions you want anyways."
   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17723973

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 12:28:03 EST Strypey

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      ... conveniently ignoring the fact that these are exactly the sort of users Moxie proudly encourages to use #Signal. I can't find the quotes right now, but there's a number of public comments where he's justified Signal's technical decisions by waxing lyrical about all the dissenters and journalists who have protected their communications from totalitarian states using it.

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 12:28:56 EST Strypey

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         Honestly, the mentality among Signal defenders, and particularly the way they maintain that Moxie can do no wrong, smacks of a cargo cult. How can anyone uncritically defend a so-called security specialist who says things like this with a straight face?

         > "The security model for desktops (unix-based and windows-based) is completely broken, and I think the mobile environment should be a chance to rectify our past sins, not copy them."
         https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127#issuecomment-13339504