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by ricardobeat 443 days ago
Funny read.

> And that’s why I see Apple as a cult: most tech people cannot be reasoned about it.

After presenting zero actual reasons to believe they are not taking privacy seriously. Just.. beliefs.

> Corporations are lying. You must treat every corporate word as a straight lie until proved otherwise.

> I don’t say that Signal is perfect: I say I trust them to believe themselves what they announce.

I share the distrust in corporations, but there is zero technical reason to believe Signal apps are more secure than Apple's unless you reviewed the code yourself, entirely, and built it from source.

Pot, meet kettle.

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He says he has read some code:

> First of all, Signal is open source. And, yes, I’ve read some of the source code for some feature I was interested in. I’ve also read through some very deep audit of Signal source code.