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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • I question why anyone would have a monopole or exclusive right to a topic of conversation :)

    But I actually disagree due to another fundamental point: USA politics are in fact involving and impacting the rest of the world. The USA leads NATO and has previously threatened to drop it, as well as the WHO, they get involved (sometimes violently) in foreign affairs (afghanistan). They are a huge economic market to which many foreign companies try to sell or get funding. They are the biggest stock exchange (still today I guess).

    The influence of the USA exceeds its borders since quite a while now. It is only normal for people to feel involved, despite not being from the USA. Same with Russia, same with China.







  • This message is definitely giving all the vibes of a disinformation/misinformation attempt. There is no metadata to harvest from signal.

    Here is an example of all the extent of data that signal has on any given user: https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/

    It involves phone number, account creation time and last connected time. That’s it. Nothing more.

    The cross referencing of data is just nonsense. Google and meta already have your phone number. Adding signal info to it adds absolutely zero information to them. They have it all already. They know nothing of who you talk with, which groups you are part of.

    The funding of Signal did involve public grants but that’s not anything bad. Many projects and nonprofits receive public money. It does not imply that there are backdoors or anything like that. And signal was purposefully designed so that no matter who owns and operates it, the messages stay hidden independently on the server infrastructure. They did the best possible to remove themselves from the chain of trust. Expert cryptographers and auditors trust signal. Don’t listen to this random ramble of an online stranger whose intentions are just to confuse you and make you doubt.











  • I don’t care which is better. But I can share certain unique features which make me personally chose GrapheneOS over all other options I know of:

    • it is possible to relock the bootloader
    • you can disable the internet permission
    • the location service is independent on google services, even if you install them
    • you can use mutliple profiles and pipe notifications from one profile to another
    • you control native app debugging (and its off by default)
    • you have storage scope (as well as contacts scope)
    • you get all the latest security patches and really fast
    • and more…