[romaaeterna]

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Circling back up. Article author: Twitter might be untrustworthy and could bruteforce your keys. Use Signal.

Me: That's unreasonable. You also have to trust Signal.

Your answer just now: Why are people picking on Signal?!?

In fact, what the world really needs, rather than 3rd-party controlled encrypted messaging solutions like Twitter and Signal, is public apis for public key cryptography on non-trusted infrastructure, not tied to single groups. Everybody knows this. The reason that we instead have bodies like Signal -- a company that just so happens to tie every encrypted message to a real phone number and real human identity for no easily explained reason -- and the reason we have people who surely know better defending bodies like Signal in public, is an exercise left for the reader.