| I agree with your list of benefits. Only thing I really want to comment on (but see my response elsewhere) is > My interest in strong privacy engineering means, frankly, I don't give a shit about federation. I think the point of federation is that I don't know any way to get all three of the following: 1. I can run my own server, and keep my own account on it. (Last I checked, Signal couldn't realistically do that, but maybe things have changed or I was mistaken.) 2. I can communicate with one of my sources without them having to sign up for an account on my server (which may not be possible in certain conditions). 3. The protocol is not federated. But maybe we mean slightly different things by federation. Anyway, I'm sorry you've been targeted by people overly enthusiastic about the merits of PGP. I'm certainly not one - it's absolutely a very flawed approach. |