there are many great reasons to use Signal

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- Provides context, so people who don't know software founders by name know it's not just a rando making a joke

The comments of that tweet are nothing but "Signal is full of huge design flaws"
Right, because "add user to group" is a design flaw.
- If it's full of design flaws, they probably shouldn't be using it for military planning. It's sad to see the cult members grasping at straws to make this the fault of anyone but those incompetent buffoons.
  
  They are trying to divert that the problem was journalist in the chat. In reality journalist present is the only good thing about the whole thing, he acted responsible and made us aware of this. I wouldn't be surprised if Waltz did it on purpose to expose how they are threatening country's security.
  The actual problem is that it looks like they use signal on personal insecure phones for all their communication. Signal is meant for consumer use not for classified information, but even if it was secure or doesn't matter if the phone can be compromised and smartphones are constantly being broken into and the country doesn't even need to be Russia and China to be capable of doing it. It is so bad that there are products that governments can buy to tap into their citizen's phones.

I’ve never used Signal, so can’t speak to it’s quality, but the founder’s attitude is pretty funny
- Its pretty great, my default messaging app when someone's on it.
- It's top notch if you want to keep conversations private (NSA spying) with friends and family who already have your phone number (unique identifier used to create Signal profile)
  
  Usernames are a thing now, so it's no longer necessary to share your phone number with other users.
  
  You can use usernames, so I think it's great for communicating with people who you don't want to share your phone number with too
  https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
  
  My friends already know my political opinions and my family would probably turn me in if they knew.
- Moxie is awesome! He's one of those people that would be on the short list for 'most interesting person'
- Been a solid messaging app for the past couple years I've been using it. Unlike Whatsapp, it's much easier to control its notifications and media shared
  
  As an old user of textsecure they've been solid for a surprising amount of time. Back in the day (ca like 2013?) me and all my friends would use CyanogenMod which at the time had textsecure built in to the ROM. It used an early version of the Signal encryption protocol layered onto plain SMS messages, and the ROM support meant I didn't even need to install a special app - it would intercept all incoming and outgoing SMSes at the OS level and transparently encrypt and decrypt each one based on who it was coming from or going to. Since messages were direct, the textsecure servers afaik were only used to host public keys.
  Also since it was layered onto SMS, we had a handful of fun occurrences of re-flashing ROMs and forgetting to re-register and then we'd get gibberish texts from our friends whose phones still had our old key.
- I recommend this blog post he published a few years ago. The way this is written is so funny and amazing at the same time.
  https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
  
  Lmao that last paragraph ahahahaha
- Very good these days! They've also been tested, all the gov gets are unix account creation date timestamps.
  Was pretty buggy back in 2016 especially with embeds and video codec support between android and apple devices.
  edit: There's also Molly-FOSS a signal fork on https://molly.im/ with more optional security features but the FOSS branch doesn't use google proprietary blobs/services. Great for GrapheneOS users especially.
- It's feature equivalent to WhatsApp except maybe with backups. But wow getting people of WhatsApp is hard

I've heard a few people try and demonize Signal even before this goofy situation by claiming terrorists use it to plan attacks and I'm just sat over here like: yeah? Terrorists have also used youtube, Facebook, Twitter, discord and every other platform under the sun to organize and recruit to their groups.
And now there's this blunder (?) And somehow Signal is bad for the decisions other people make on the app? Which btw, I don't believe for a second that that was an accident. You will have to actually make an effort to add someone to a chat who doesn't belong there.
And I'm sorry, but I think the comment is pretty funny. I dunno. Maybe I'm just completely morally bankrupt or missing the bigger picture, but every negative thing I have heard people say about Signal is just bizarre. I genuinely don't understand what the issue is.
Need I remind anyone of how ISIS used Facebook and messenger in 2018 to post brutal execution videos of two scandinavian girls around Christmas and sending that shit to everyone on the girls' friends lists? As much as I hate Facebook I wouldn't dream of blaming them for some subhuman scum abusing their service for nefarious reasons.
- I've heard that criminals and terrorists use telephones. You have a phone? Hmmmm... you seem suspicious to me!
  Yeah it's just people being ignorant. They're unfamiliar with Signal is so are susceptible to believing all kinds of shit about it based on negative associations.
  
  Dude, I have heard that terrorists breathe. Do you breathe? You may want to check yourself, buddy!
  I'm just really surprised by some of the people I have heard say these things about Signal because one is a family member who works in politics and is otherwise really smart and with it. I think the next time we see one another I want to ask him about it because I'm really curious about what he thinks and why he thinks that way. My own experience with Signal has been wonderful. I have only had one chat request from either a scammer or a bot and that's nothing compared to the weird shit I would experience on Facebook, youtube and reddit sometimes. Facebook especially was weird at one point. I would suddenly have people on my friends list I didn't know at all and whom I had no memory of adding. Same with subscriptions to random channels on youtube and constant chat requests from bots on reddit. By that measure, I think Signal is pretty solid in comparison.
  The way the media portrays this current goof almost makes it sound like Signal is a dangerous app to use, when it's literally the actions of one asshole who went through all the steps of adding the wrong person. There is no way you're gonna do that by mistake. I downloaded the app so I could keep in contact with my best friend when I left facebook. We live in vastly different countries and don't have each other's phone numbers so it was a bit of an awkward dance back and forth immediately after we downloaded the app and tried to figure out how the fuck you add each other.
  If more noobs like me used the app and understood the basics of what it is, they too would realize a few things about this "accident".
- I heard about a WoW clan leader in like 2005 or so who got interviewed by the FBI because some of his guild members used it to organize an attack. I think they threw grenades at an Army base or something.

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Imagine using a hammer to remove a screw from a beam.
It's possible, but it's not the right tool. It's frankly dangerous, and probably going to damage something.
But, a hammer, when used on nails, is really good at what it does.
Signal encrypts your message, sends it to the recipient, and the recipient's Signal decrypts the message when they view it.
It is open source, so we can verify it does that ourselves. What that means is that a reader who is not the receiver of the message cannot read it.
That does NOT MEAN:
The receiver is who you intended it to be.
The receiver is uncompromised.
Signal also DOES NOT:
Have control lists to your group discussions.
Verify the receiver is who they say they are
The benefit is:
We know that the message sent is encrypted.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc, can't route your message through their servers en route to your recipient. Or well, they can at a low level, but it would just be a garbled mess anyway.

Gonna download Signal now and hope that I get into the secret Area 51 group chat where they just share pictures of aliens and alien technology they're playing with.

Been using it since Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan

So the military uses Signal...
- Also emojis
  
  Tactical emojis are classified as a force-multiplier until they can be weaponized.

Man I bet having a buch of handles and email accounts and user names that are just a letter off from heads of departments and cabinet staff would get you a lot of unsolicited classified US documents and plans.

Sure, there are plenty of great reasons to use Signal... like if you want your private messages you've sent linked back to you via a phone number. No tool intended for maximum security is going to require you to provide a phone number, which is incredibly difficult to acquire in the US without some form of KYC metadata. But sure if you've never read Moxie's blog to see he is obviously invested in Israel's agenda, then go ahead.
- What on Earth does Signal requiring phone numbers have to do with Israel?
  
  Just keep using it, especially if you plan any protests & maybe you'll find out.
- Phone numbers are easy to get for verification. Molly is great i agree.

Did Moxie use AI to write this post? I honestly can't tell.
- Huh? It's not that badly written and it references a recent event. Why do you think it's AI?
  
  No it's her voice and the way she reads the teleprompter like a literal robot with imitation emotions. She sounds like text-to-speech. Sorry I was unclear about which kind of AI lol