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Re: Signal Desktop

#21

Post by rmchugh »

Loving moxie's namedropping of oldschool revolutionaries:

Maria (Masha) Alexandrovna Kolenkina was a Russian socialist revolutionary from a merchant family in Temzhuk, a small town on the Sea of Azov. (1850-1926) Vera Ivanovna Zasulich was a Russian Menshevik writer and revolutionary. (1849-1919) Nestor Ivanovych Makhno or Bat'ko Makhno was a Ukrainian anarcho-communist revolutionary and the commander of an independent anarchist army in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. (1888-1934) (all above from Wikipedia)

Re: Signal Desktop

#23

Post by codemac »

The join the beta button isn't working? I click and nothing happens.

I looked at the page source, but then I realized I don't know how the fuck javascript works.

Re: Signal Desktop

#25

Post by sigmar »

I don't understand why it prompts me to invite other people after putting me in line. Why would I email/tweet my friends to join this service if it isn't even ready for me? Seems rude to bother a friend with joining an internet line just so that I can get a better position in the line.

I love signal on android and have been looking forward to this, kind of rubs me the wrong way when I'm put in "line"

Re: Signal Desktop

#26

Post by spiznnx »

codemac wrote: post #23

The join the beta button isn't working? I click and nothing happens. I looked at the page source, but then I realized I don't know how the fuck javascript works.

the button only worked in chrome, not firefox for me

Re: Signal Desktop

#27

Post by leonhandreke »

Why incentivize spamming my friends with links before I've even seen the app, only to refer them to a waiting line? Sure, launch day momentum and all that, but I wish that as an entity that wants to be "the good guys", they can find a way to gain a broader audience for their app based on the app itself, not the buzz around it.

On a sidenote, does anyone know who funds their full-timers? https://whispersystems.org/workworkwork/ says they're not VC funded. But then who pays them?

Re: Signal Desktop

#28

Post by frayesto »

sigmar wrote: post #25

I don't understand why it prompts me to invite other people after putting me in line. Why would I email/tweet my friends to join this service if it isn't even ready for me? Seems rude to bother a friend with joining an internet line just so that I can get a better position in the line. I love signal on android and have been looking forward to this, kind of rubs me the wrong way when I'm put in "line"

The app is still in beta testing. I think this is their way to drum up support.

Forces all the die-hards who want in to try and get some people interested.

An app like this is only as useful as the number of people who use it.

Re: Signal Desktop

#29

Post by acdha »

jmnicolas wrote: post #8

> Signal Desktop is a Chrome app which links with your [Android] phone,[...] Unless your "adversary" is not the NSA, I wonder what's the point of encrypting your communications when those coms are taking place on technologies (iOS, Android, Chrome) from companies that are members of the Prism program.

1. Billions of people live in countries which do not have jurisdiction over Apple, Google, etc.

2. You should learn more about PRISM before spreading FUD about its victims. I'm strongly critical of the NSA's actions but for all of their abuse, PRISM is not the bogeyman you're making it out to be:

“The PRISM program collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...

Re: Signal Desktop

#30

Post by frayesto »

leonhandreke wrote: post #27

Why incentivize spamming my friends with links before I've even seen the app, only to refer them to a waiting line? Sure, launch day momentum and all that, but I wish that as an entity that wants to be "the good guys", they can find a way to gain a broader audience for their app based on the app itself, not the buzz around it. On a sidenote, does anyone know who funds their full-timers? https://whispersystems.org/wor…

They are part of the [Freedom of the Press foundation](https://freedom.press/) and have grants from the Shuttleworth foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Whisper_Systems#Funding

http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201499909/

https://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/moxie-marlins...

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