Not a lot of need for the app. But it’s horse crap they’re ALSO removing Bluetooth.

As someone who owns a bunch of their products I’m bummed that it’s another company to not buy from anymore. It’s like every good product gets ruined by a greedy CEO

Wish I could be a fly on the walk when the bad actor realized years of work has just gone down the drain

The US Military also uses IRC, is that the future too? I’m sick of the ridiculous Signal hate with basically no good reason. Basically everything is run in AWS, or Azure, or Google cloud. All the governments have contracts with those cloud providers, because almost every organization large enough has things in the cloud.

Obfuscation is not meant to be foolproof. Without something like the Tor network (oh wait, the NSA and other organizations have already taken over that) WHO you talk to is not hard to determine. If someone is monitoring ALL network traffic in the world, they’ll know who is talking to who everywhere. But with good end to end encryption and no server side logging recording who you talk to, that’s definitely a good enough combo for me.

XMPP is certainly not a bad protocol, but I’m not seeing a reason to justify the Signal hate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

We have to be intolerant of intolerance. The paradox of tolerance is a great read.