Signal is adding a closed-source spam reduction piece of code to its servers

submitted by Drewski from (signal.org)

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Ah yes the old "we can't show you the rules because people might find a way to circumvent them" excuse. No reason at all why they couldn't just ship an extremely restrictive spam filter that's applied locally and on by default.

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spyware

never update

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's in their server's code, it makes no difference whether you update your local client.

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ok yeah

i suppose based on the name it'd be obvious they are sending a signal back with your info

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They claim that messages are still end-to-end encrypted and they can't read them, but having closed source code in their server doesn't leave me with a good feeling.

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it's probably like many apps, be cool and not evil at first, get popular, then sell out. Whomever's funding it isn't going to do it out of the kindness of their heart.

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Just wait until it starts banning people for their political opinions.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wish my cell phone provider would put some anti scam call software on their servers. Right now I have 2 ring tones; the one I answer and the one I ignore.