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Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

(threema.ch)
960 points andrew918277 | 3 comments | 18 Jun 24 08:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.436s | source
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mellosouls ◴[18 Jun 24 09:28 UTC] No.40715660[source]▶
Already being discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710993

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bun_terminator ◴[18 Jun 24 09:32 UTC] No.40715682[source]▶
this has more weight: threema is the biggest "alternative" (after whatsapp and telegram) chat app among my peers. There's a sizable non-tech but pro-privacy part of the population that exclusively uses threema. This will be the first time they ever hear of this.
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1. _VX3r ◴[18 Jun 24 09:41 UTC] No.40715735[source]▶
Threema being paid up front makes it harder to adopt for average uses. Signal is great option and wish more would use it.
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2. bun_terminator ◴[18 Jun 24 09:46 UTC] No.40715759[source]▶
It would be if signal would have resisted the temptation to go cryptobro. They didn't, and they lost all credibility as a result.
3. dijit ◴[18 Jun 24 10:01 UTC] No.40715848[source]▶
I wish more people would use something that's not US backed honestly.

Centralisation is a curse.

I don't inherently trust Signal, and you have to because nothing they do is verifiable; I wrote a really hit-and-miss article about this before: https://blog.dijit.sh/i-don-t-trust-signal/