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What Does It Mean to Be a Signal Competitor?
A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I’ve written, and Fediverse discussions I’ve participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these pro…
If you’re aiming to compete with Signal on security, you should, at minimum, expect to engage with a cryptography auditing firm at least once a year to review and re-review your protocol designs and implementations. Want to add all sorts of frills, like video chat or some dumb bullshit with AI and/or blockchain to secure the attention of venture capitalist investors? But unless your favorite widget also meets all of the things on this page, it’s not a valid competitor from a security and privacy perspective, and therefore I don’t want to fucking hear about it in response to me saying “use Signal until something better comes along”.
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