Ok, because the thing, that everybody knew turned out to be true, every conspiracy theory is valid now?

I guess you should go visit the Nazis in New Swabia and discuss this revelation with them.

The usual conspiracy theory is that Signal is funded by the CIA and therefore a honey pot.

what menssaging app should i use for secure communications? i need an app that balances simplicity and security.

Signal. I can do almost everything that i.e. WhatsApp or Telegram offer, is as easy to use as those and the client is verifiably encrypted and secure.

how to explain it to my friends who use signal because i recomended?

Explain what exactly? Why they should use it?

• It offers the same functionality as other messengers while being verifiably secure and encrypted.
• Signal collects only three datapoints of users
  1. Date of registration
  2. Date of last connection to the server
  3. Your encrypted backups if you enable cloud backups
• Compare that to messengers such as WhatsApp and Telegram where it is not clear which information they collect, whether they store it in an encrypted format or not or who they share it with.
  • In the case of WhatsApp it is at least the US government as required by the Cloud Act.
  • In case of Telegram the data is unencrypted by default and cooperation with various governments has been reported.

what this means for other apps in general?

Please clarify the question.

Yeah, the first chapter is hard to swallow, and compared to that the next ones feel kind of underwhelming. The book often changes pace, however there are no more gut punches like the first chapter, if that is what you are concerned about.

In case you haven’t done so already I suggest reading The Ministry for the Future.

Cue politicians calling to ban 3D printers in 3 … 2 …1 …

At first glance I was expecting a revisionist history blog.

Because it’s what we have always done.

*Königsberg

Germany and NATO will start a special operation to come to the aid of the suppressed German minority any day now! /s

The 27 temporary gas turbines

There is nothing as permanent as a temporary solution.

Well, then feel free to keep your uninformed opinion to yourself.

Also, turns out Geert is from Germany and not the Netherlands.

Fits either way

Everywhere. You have to consider two points: Most light in our nightsky comes from the reflection of sunlight by the Moon. Secondly deep space is not the space between planets or even between the outmost planet and the Kuiper Belt.

It is the place between stars, which is lightyears in diameters and where every star is just a tiny dot in the sky. This is not enough available energy to power our current level of electronics via solar. Which is why i.e. the Voyager probes use RTGs as power source after they left the area of our solar system where solar power is viable.

Technically correct. The beat kind of correct. 🫡

Link to the original talk at 39C3

If it was impossible for the other side to read the content of the messages, I’d agree. Hence, why it is less problematic that Signals server software is closed source.

Telegram is not FOSS. The client is, but the server-side implementation is not, which is important if you consider the fact that encryption is turned off by default.

Perfect! Thank you!