My understanding is that the CIA operated a news agency in the 50s, then decades later the 2012 president of the news agency started the Open Technology Fund to “help better protect reporters and sources for the news organization with enhanced digital security technology”. That organization made (publicly documented) investments in projects including the Tor Project and Signal. Even if someone thinks the OTF is sinister, the total amount over 5 years was $3M.
Is there any way to link to a Lemmy comment/post that doesn’t redirect me to the web page of a different instance? Something like the way we can use !privacyguides@lemmy.one
At this point I have to wonder whether the “Signal is CIA funded” narrative is not just butthurt Russian trolls mad at the fact it’s also used by spies and informants for secure communication.
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Do this mean that we no longer have to give our connections our phone number? Never liked the phone number requirement.
This is quite funny for me because I use Signal to talk to the woman I’ve been seeing for about six months and now I’d have to ask her for her number.
Well, then the same goes for TOR
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Ah not this again (EDIT: see this link for a better explanation than mine: https://lemmy.ca/comment/5401873 )
Your source there lists it as:
My understanding is that the CIA operated a news agency in the 50s, then decades later the 2012 president of the news agency started the Open Technology Fund to “help better protect reporters and sources for the news organization with enhanced digital security technology”. That organization made (publicly documented) investments in projects including the Tor Project and Signal. Even if someone thinks the OTF is sinister, the total amount over 5 years was $3M.
Condensing all that into “Signal is CIA funded” is silly, and it’s even sillier to imply that Signal is controlled by the CIA as a honeypot.
Also, it’s open source. Given how popular it is, and how much constant scrutiny the code is under, we should notice any issues that pop up.
Unrelated to the content of post you linked.
Is there any way to link to a Lemmy comment/post that doesn’t redirect me to the web page of a different instance? Something like the way we can use !privacyguides@lemmy.one
I think there was an extension in firefox to redirect you to the correct instance
I assume there’s nothing on mobile yet?
I think it’s on all the browsers
Instance Assistant
Something fun I spotted while checking links: a comment from the Signal subreddit linked to the Lemmy discussion that I was looking for. Lemmy’s SEO isn’t as good, but I found it indirectly anyways
At this point I have to wonder whether the “Signal is CIA funded” narrative is not just butthurt Russian trolls mad at the fact it’s also used by spies and informants for secure communication.
Excellent source. Thank you
It’s very misleading (or straight up false), see the other comments
You still need to provide a phone number to register…
I guess, but that shouldn’t be an issue for any existing user.
So for anyone already using it, it’s a strict improvement.
For sure!
You get a random digits after your username, like “User.11”. It defaulted to two for me, but I am able to customize those digits. On mobile I get the option under Settings -> click my avatar/name.
Good to know, thank you :)
Setting my name now