[DyslexicAtheist]

> one of them proclaimed today that Signal is owned by Elon Musk (probably because he tweeted about it)

here is another one (with an insane amount of likes/retweets for something so wrong):

"Signal is owned by Twitter and monitored. While open source it is not as secure as they say. Use telegram." -- https://twitter.com/RebelOutlaw1990/status/13471653380777000...

[breiti]

Just a few tweet below in that thread:

> Telegram is owned by Google if not mistaken!?

sigh.

[joshxyz]

To be fair i grew up thinking bill gates owned skype

[filoleg]

Your belief about Skype being owned by Bill Gates is kinda factually true. Not necessarily Bill Gates himself, but Microsoft acquired Skype back in 2011.

[brewdad]

Microsoft does own Skype now, so in a way he does.

[raarts]

That might have been true depending on your age.

[xenocratus]

First comment that I saw:

> Telegram uses custom cryptography.

> Signal uses encryption protocols sponsored by Broadcasting Board of Governors, a sister federal agency to the State Department. In plain words, data easily accessible by CIA, NASA and FBI.

I wonder what NASA will do with my Signal messages, maybe use them for a giggle in between transmissions from Mars.

Also, recent blog post about Telegram and its crypto: https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cry...

[godelski]

> I wonder what NASA will do with my Signal messages

They batch them up and send them to deep space through SETI. The aliens are the real ones behind surveillance operations which they use to create a reality TV show. And with this NASA prevents the world from being destroyed from said aliens.

[Cyphase]

They call it Operation Scheherazade.

[dawnerd]

Gesh the amount of bad information in those replies.

[Sudophysics]

It's Russian owned actually, moved HQ to Germany.