Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 18 days agoThere isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down16 cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up173arrow-down1external-linkThere isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comBlaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square20linkfedilink cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squarecoherent_domain@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-217 days agoMoxie Marlinspike mentioned why they decided to build a centrualized service: basically, for rapid update to security protocols and less technical burden for backward compatibility. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ Indeed there is decentralized E2EE messenger: https://getsession.org/ and it is quite popular (not close to the popularity of signal, though).
Moxie Marlinspike mentioned why they decided to build a centrualized service: basically, for rapid update to security protocols and less technical burden for backward compatibility.
https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Indeed there is decentralized E2EE messenger: https://getsession.org/ and it is quite popular (not close to the popularity of signal, though).