This is exactly what I'm thinking. I expect a post in he next day or so from Open Whisper people to lend credibility to this project. They seem to be the Go-To these days.
Yeah, but then, again, how much credibility does Open Whisper Systems actually deserve?
For me personally, they've lost a huge chunk of credibility by lending credibility to companies for apparently rewriting the definition of "end-to-end-encryption" from previously referring to the users as the end to now referring to some magical proprietary blackbox as the end.
And the other chunk of credibility sort of died off, as they apparently seem to think depending on proprietary Google software for their products is how you do privacy.
That is, their Android-client for Signal depends on Google Play Services for receiving notifications, even though LibreSignal exists, which is a fork specifically to remove that dependency, and from which they could have easily pulled that changed code in as a fallback.
And when they figured they should make a desktop client, apparently the best technology that they could think of, was a Google Chrome extension.
For me personally, they've lost a huge chunk of credibility by lending credibility to companies for apparently rewriting the definition of "end-to-end-encryption" from previously referring to the users as the end to now referring to some magical proprietary blackbox as the end.
And the other chunk of credibility sort of died off, as they apparently seem to think depending on proprietary Google software for their products is how you do privacy.
That is, their Android-client for Signal depends on Google Play Services for receiving notifications, even though LibreSignal exists, which is a fork specifically to remove that dependency, and from which they could have easily pulled that changed code in as a fallback.
And when they figured they should make a desktop client, apparently the best technology that they could think of, was a Google Chrome extension.