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Has it been audited by external, independent security researchers?
Yes, it's open source and anyone can look at the source code instead of appealing to authority.
"look" is a weak word. Anyone with eyes can look.
Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal
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#93How dare you suggest Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite after said "Privacy is no longer a social norm", and then bought all houses surrounding his one. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-... https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-buys-4-homes...
I don’t see how it is hypocritical. Privacy is not a norm, it is a privilege of people like Zuckerberg.
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#94I'll never understand the concept of a privacy focused messaging app that uses your phone number.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everybody should have a shutter over the camera, just to protect from blunders and misclicks. No matter how you trust your software, some malware may want to activate it, especially at a high-value target like Zuckerberg (or Bezos, or Nadella, etc). Alas, microphones are not as easy to deactivate.
Covering a camera always seemed like unjustified paranoia for me. If someone can access my camera and spy my unkept beard, why won't they also be able to access my keyboard and spy my main email account password?
Tape over camera originated with the spate of online webcam blackmail attacks a few years ago.
Lots of young girls were being lured into installing malware and had their bedrooms recorded.
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#96Isn’t a bit of a privacy flaw that signal exposes who uses the app by phone number?
It gets really interesting when you don't allow apps to see your contacts. Take Clubhouse for example, I never allowed it to see my contacts but it does show me all the people who have leaked my personal info to the app because it's made them auto follow me.
So yeah cool I can see that my boss, 4 ex-coworkers, my ex-bosses ex-wife, and I think a recruiter have all leaked my personal info to Clubhouse.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe he bought the surrounding houses to make it harder for snipers? He's not exactly a popular guy, and there are a lot of guns in America.
Why do you feel the need to make up totally absurd excuses to protect his image? Do you know him personally or has he done something for you? Why do you believe he is a person of integrity?
> Why do you feel the need to make up totally absurd excuses to protect his image?
You Americans really have no sense of humour sometimes. Anyway, how exactly is it protecting his image to imply people might want to shoot him? Being widely disliked enough to drive people to that isn't exactly a sign of shining character. It's one of the few things the left and right in American can unite on: hating the zucc.
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#98Funny comments, but jokes aside, I think we're missing a very obvious reason why he has signal. Mark most likely has contacts that are super high up in governments and coorporations who use signal since they can't trust any other app. People who say that he just tested out competition, I think you guys underestimate his technological knowledge and his resources waaay too much. If he wanted to do that he could have ea…
Maybe. And maybe he’s there because he is a smart lad who knows which products to monitor closely. After all he bought Instagram and WhatsApp for peanuts, and copied the best features of SnapChat.
To me, this is the obvious answer.
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#99How dare you suggest Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite after said "Privacy is no longer a social norm", and then bought all houses surrounding his one. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-... https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-buys-4-homes...
because 1 is not an opinion but a fact. and probably a fact he probably disagree with, like you people don't care about privacy but it's not exactly his fault. then his job is to capitalize on it. why would he care. you would probably do the same ..
> people don't care about privacy
Funny you phrase it like that. When I discuss with people about 'privacy', nobody has anything to hide. When I take 2-3 minutes explaining to them why 'someone' (data markets) out there knows: what type of porn gets them off, what they shop, how much money they have, what diseases they have (that may impact their chances to a life insurance - theirs' and their kids'), their drinking habits (that may impact their premiums on car insurance), who they meet/greet/f..k..
Then their expression changes a bit. Ignorance is bliss. I awaken 1-2 people at a time. BUT (big but - sorry for the caps) "all my friends is on FB, and Chrome is such a nice browser".
> you would probably do the same
I used to know a guy who geniunely had the opinion: if it wasn't illegal to sell heroin to kids, I'd be a billionaire right now selling to all my kids, starting with my kids' friends.
Unfortunately this person has kids, voting rights, walks among us. Yes I want to be a billionaire (I'm many-many zeros away from this target). No I wouldn't sell heroin (or your kids' photos you post on social media) to anyone else. Zuck has no problem getting 13yo on Instagram, profiling them, and trading their data. So NO.
Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal
#100How dare you suggest Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite after said "Privacy is no longer a social norm", and then bought all houses surrounding his one. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-... https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-buys-4-homes...
because 1 is not an opinion but a fact. and probably a fact he probably disagree with, like you people don't care about privacy but it's not exactly his fault. then his job is to capitalize on it. why would he care. you would probably do the same ..
Ask people for unfettered access to their unlocked phone, even with them sitting there and watching you to prevent you from doing anything but poke around, and you will find a whole lot of people suddenly care more about privacy.
What is probably closer to the truth is that people care little about privacy from someone they think they will never come face to face with, and who they believe won't leak that information to anyone they will come face to face with.
The problem comes when people don't have the knowledge necessary to assess the risk of that happening in any given scenario.