"WhatsApp is to hand your phone number to Facebook", use @whispersystems Signal instead
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Replying to @FallenPegasus
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@whispersystems Signal hands your identity to Google, and refuses to play with the other kids.https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1000 …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @bkero @FallenPegasus
"Hands your identity to Google?" Citation needed.
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Replying to @signalapp @whispersystems
Requiring GCM means you are forcing users to give potential PII to Google, which is a heavy-handed way of violating privacy.
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Replying to @bkero
What PII? The messages are empty. People would probably take this crowd more seriously if it didn't grossly exaggerate everything.
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Replying to @signalapp @whispersystems
Doesn't matter that messages are empty. Metadata. Leaks time, app ID, receiver device IDs, and is PII with associated G data
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Replying to @bkero
Can you see how "Google knows when a background app receives a wakeup" is very different from "Signal hands your identity to Google?"
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Replying to @signalapp @whispersystems
Sounds flippant. More accurate is "Signal needs an identity with Google, and usage (sans data) can be tracked and subpoenad"
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Where "identity" is an unlinkable random number and where "usage" is when the app is woken up from background sleep.
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Replying to @signalapp @whispersystems
have ya'll blogged abt Signal's interaction w/ Google? want to read moar. it's hard on android users w/ no Google app store.
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