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+1 for Signal (used to be TextSecure). They now have a desktop app in beta which synchronises perfectly with my mobile
>They now have a desktop app It sit on the top of a close-source browser...
[0]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/26/googles_not_listenin...
Interestingly, Fitch downgraded Brazil's Debt to junk yesterday. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/057c1240-a40f-11e5-b73f-95454... Anti-technology culture tells a lot about an economy, group or nation.
I'd then call the developers "psychopaths" because they don't understand the harm done by drug smugglers.
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Of course they know what that is - and actively use it - just think of Facebook messenger.
They might actively use it but not because they want to. In fact, Brazil's most popular chatting app that is recently banned there doesn't have multi-device sync. Hangouts does. Everyone could use hangouts, but not nearly as many people do.
Mark's talk about privacy is, in my opinion, totally misplaced. No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don't have it. This is not me saying; this is our Constitution saying it (and the Constitution of every Western country that I know).
We are biased to see all measures against privacy with bad eyes, specially after Snowden. But that's because you are good people and see the matter with those eyes, not with the eyes of a criminal. Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ? I don't.
Also, what the NSA was (is?) doing is a complete absurd, with no judicial oversight, mass collecting everything they can get in secrecy. This has nothing to do with what we have here. In Brazil, only a judge can authorize someone to be wiretapped, it can only be done in criminal cases with jail time (no civil cases). Also, the judge must specify a single phone number or single e-mail account and the decision must be reviewed every 15 days, otherwise it expires. Also, there's a national database of wiretaps that every judge must feed by the end of the month, specifying how many wiretaps there are currently running.
WhatsApp and Facebook are not, by any means, above the law. If they want to provide a communication service here, the law is clear that they must abide by judicial orders that allow wiretapping in very specific cases.
What really happened: a drug smuggler with ties to a major criminal organization had been investigated and sentenced several months ago and since July Facebook and WhatsApp folks had not complied (actually they simply ignored all requests) with some users data the justice demanded to keep prosecuting the guy and his associates. Allegedly, according to the new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Civil_Rights_Frame…
No worries, in a few years, corporations will be able to sue governments into oblivion for lost revenue on cases like this...
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+1 for Signal (used to be TextSecure). They now have a desktop app in beta which synchronises perfectly with my mobile
>They now have a desktop app It sit on the top of a close-source browser...
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+1 for Signal (used to be TextSecure). They now have a desktop app in beta which synchronises perfectly with my mobile
Installing Signal to try as well! Can Signal be taken down like WhatsApp if the same happens again in the future?
I'm a judge in Brazil. Even tough I'd pray to not be the one that had to give such an impopular order (affecting more then 100 million Brazilians - WhatsApp is really a hit here), we have laws in this country and we must prosecute criminals. Mark's talk about privacy is, in my opinion, totally misplaced. No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don't have it. This i…
Do you mean _alleged_ criminals? Yes, they do.
Convicted criminals, on the other hand, don't have that right already.
Shame they went there instead of to Signal, but I guess it may still be a marginal improvement.
What I'd love is if they could also make it an email client too. Letting me send/receive insecure emails or (if the recipient has Signal) encrypted email using the same key management. I'd much prefur to give out an email address (totally in my control) than a phone number (could be taken away from me at any moment).
One digital communication app please.