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I'm fascinated by your last point. Are you saying that being deaf impedes your written communication ? As a layman I would have thought that written communication would be a godsend.
I think you may not appreciate how intertwined your verbal cognitive skills are with your ability to think / type / communicate.
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> I agree that journalists have little excuse. Except wanting anyone, ever to talk to them again about something controversial.
I disagree. Bob Woodward has gotten PLENTY of high level politicians to talk to him candidly even though he's publishing what they are saying often in an unflattering light. If someone as famous as the watergate guy can STILL get politicians to talk to him, what does a random journalist have to fear? I mean, FFS, the gamer nexus guy got newegg to talk to him even after blasting them about ripping him off and letting…
Nothing about that situation has bearing on whether people first think of safely concealed sources or being publicly dragged through the mud like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden before sharing things far more important than entitled rants about customer service for entertainment-related products. My lord.
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> it is apparently not not required that the conference provider decrypt the streams to mix them I don't believe this could be true, and the linked article doesn't have the word "mix" anywhere. I imagine that there is no mixing happening until after decryption on the client device. Of course this means that every audio source goes to each recipient discretely, which means more bandwidth, but audio (especially near-si…
That's correct. You can't mix without decrypting. Signal does not mix at the server because it can't. More info is available at my blog post about it: https://signal.org/blog/how-to-build-encrypted-group-calls/