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Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 6 days ago

There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
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Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
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    Moxie Marlinspike mentioned why they decided to build a centrualized service: basically, for rapid update to security protocols and less technical burden for backward compatibility.

    https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

    Indeed there is decentralized E2EE messenger: https://getsession.org/ and it is quite popular (not close to the popularity of signal, though).

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