"WhatsApp is to hand your phone number to Facebook", use @whispersystems Signal instead
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Replying to @FallenPegasus
But
@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
and the combo of 1) refusing 3rd party client support, and 2) not providing a G-free APK leaves many out in the cold
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Replying to @bkero
Still waiting on the PR for the G-free apk. Lots of people like to complain, but nobody is of yet willing to do the work.
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Replying to @signalapp @whispersystems
Knowing that such an improvement would be considered upstream is wonderful! I hope the knowledge will inspire devs to act.
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We're not holding our breaths.
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