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That fake video on top is interesting. If they can't even get that right what does it say about their Privacy and Security claims?
Empirically, absolutely nothing. You can't judge the security of a software based on its marketing material.
Is there a federated and/or self-hosted alternative to Signal with similar privacy and security properties? Even if it supports fewer platforms? I've been getting more and more interested in running my own (and perhaps my friends') infrastructure, but I haven't found anything better than IRC for chat.
I run a Synapse server ( http://matrix.org/ ) which is federated and works very well. There are many clients but the nicest at the moment is Riot. Full encryption is now available in the Riot webclient and it's coming to the app soon.
http://matrix.org/speculator/spec/drafts%2Fe2e/client_server...
Still no desktop client?
https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/
It's also a real app[1], independent from the phone's: after the initial key exchange, you can send/receive messages even when your phone is off
[1] Compare with the Whatsapp webapp, which solves/sidesteps the E2E encryption among multiple devices conundrum by simply routing everything through the phone. The Signal app is also written with web technologies, so it might not be palatable for everyone, but it's a good compromise imho
Still no desktop client?
How would a cache hit mean same user tried to search? TLS session resume, I can understand but cache hit only means same resource was accessed not same user tried to access.
Can I, as a receiver, turn off this feature? Ex : get text messages instead of gifs.
Is there a federated and/or self-hosted alternative to Signal with similar privacy and security properties? Even if it supports fewer platforms? I've been getting more and more interested in running my own (and perhaps my friends') infrastructure, but I haven't found anything better than IRC for chat.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that history has shown us that theoretically secure but feature deficient systems lose out to less ideologically pure systems that provide what users want, leaving the sum total amount of security provided to be less.
EDIT: Deleted the comment because the of attacks in responses, which I can’t respond to due to "Submitting too fast". @dang: If you want users to be able to actually discuss things, allow them to respond to comments attacking them. This is a retarded system.