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243 private links
243 private links
Issues with Signal listed so far
- Tied to US for most of its funding
- The funding sources remains unclear
- Employees gets ~$440,000 annually
- Use GAFAM to work such as Amazon (AWS) or Goggle and Microsoft (hosting too)
- metadata can be spied by the U.S.. See https://lemmy.ml/comment/5882433 or the metadata provided https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/
- despite requests from many users, Signal hasn’t supported the inclusion of its app on F-Droid
- Signal logs information through the notifications, and audio calls (time, name of the account) on the device. See how to reduce data leak
- When the device is unlocked, Signals content can be read
Other critics are stated in https://nostr.band/note154hta9dt8k4mhleu4z20rwlqd85dxap20xtvcy4fq89uzcrwshpsdelk2t