I use the Signal a lot and have never been nagged to share my phone number.

Yeah that one (off Italy coast) ended up being blown up by authorities. There was a movie about it.

So the person you are downloading from is breaking the law but you are not. Odd law but I envy your situation.

I don’t trust that the lawyers weren’t bribed.

Look at the Men At Work plagiarism case regarding Land Down Under. That was a transformative work yet the band lost the case to the estate of a nursery rhyme.

Isn’t the download a share?

If they could surveil the device to see the PIN being entered then no app would protect them.

My Signal only asks for a PIN about once per month so that would be a lot of screen surveillance hours to sit through in order to catch that moment.

More likely is that it was fixed since the breach but I cannot find release notes (hard to search on my phone).

SimpleX is decentralized, requires no phone number, based on Signal code. Screws up invitations via FB/Messenger though.

Regarding the trick of an adversary gaining access by emailing or SMS’ing a QR code for adding another device…

Why does the new device not demand the PIN before being added?

“The only metadata that Signal would have access to, is the phone number used to register, the date of initial registration, and the date of last use.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/exd92f/what_kind_of_usermessage_metadata_is_observed_and/

In case people only saw the headline…

The sale is because a breach already happened: “hackers obtained personal data of about seven million of its customers in October 2023”.

They cannot afford the lawsuits.

MP3’s sped up copying of music. As for games though, they increased in size because of CD’s so that countered any speed up.

I heard from a Redditor that his tweets were luring US scientists to EU and his visit was a recruitment drive. One USAmerican already took up the offer.

I imagine US does not want to identify him because although we could verify the above in his tweets, it would be advertising the lure for US scientists to defect.

And the French guy probably does not want to identify himself because je wants to make the US government look as bad as possible.

Not random, not as bad as the headline sounds but not worthy of banning anyhow.

Proton always works for me. I use it to get around geo blocking.

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues/3335

Someone did interact in the meantime. I don’t have SimpleX installed currently in order to generate an invite to send to Messenger.

Exactly. You want my original github submission URL or is it best to send afresh?

Good point re first one.

Second one is a problem for most people. They just click on a link and expect it to work. They would have to figure out themselves what the workaround is because SimpleX says something like “bad invite” or “bad link”.

And even if I told them what to do, they don’t even know it is possible to copy, paste, edit, hit return.

I have about 30 activists using Signal whom I would like to migrate to SimpleX. I didn’t want to handhold each of them. I think you are overestimating general computer literacy out there.

Similarly I would like to migrate over 600 of them from Facebook into our own group in Lemmy however they are older people and a third of them have enough problems signing up to and navigating Facebook.

Adding to my frustration is their English illiteracy. “more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth- grade level.”

SimpleX is not easy to setup either. There are two flaws I pointed out on GitHub over a year ago which have been ignored:

FLAW #1
Scanning a QR code invite with your camera app does not work. It has to be scanned AFTER you install SimpleX using the camera function of SimpleX.

FLAW #2
Clicking on an invite received in Messenger confuses Signal because Messenger appends a question mark and some tracking code rubbish. SimpleX could easily strip the rubbish but it doesn’t. It simply fails.

Simple ❌

And SinpleX is better than Signal because it uses the same engine but does not require your phone number.

Downside is that some of the signup options glitch and will put off non tech people.

Thanks. Gives me hope. Would you also say the males are less constrained by the macho culture of older generations? More capable of talking about emotions?

And women less constrained by their own old stereotypes?

I find it hard to be sure because both stereotypes are still alive and popular. The gender benders have been around for decades but perhaps not as flamboyant now so they merely seems more mainstream now.

younger people today are skilled in ways could have only dreamed of.

Any examples?