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submitted 2 months ago by Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for something to share images and videos between small family group. We use mix of android and apple. Text messages are terrible for images and videos.

We were using telegram, now I want to see what lemmy has to offer. Thank you in advance.

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[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Signal was developed with financial backing by the CIA, so do with that information what you will.

source?

[–] MC_Lovecraft@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://www.opentech.fund/news/february-2018-monthly-report/

It’s not a secret. It’s on their website. Note: the Open Technology Fund is the CIA. Just like Radio Free Asia (or Radio Free X, they’re all CIA-run appendages of the US state department) which the fund grew out of. The US government very often funds technologies and startups that have the potential surveillance applications (among other things) and Signal was one of them. The people calling this a conspiracy theory have no idea what they are talking about, but that’s not uncommon when it comes to Americans and swallowing their own propaganda whole.

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I looked up the Open Technology Fund on Wikipedia and it has no relation to the CIA. well, except that its parent agency (Radio Free Asia) is part of the US government like the CIA is. they don't seem to work together at all, and they're under the purview of two different branches of government

besides, as other commenters have said, they're open source and they've been audited. anyone can build the client themselves (with any potential backdoors removed) and set up their own server. would the CIA allow for that?

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Realistically, how many people build applications themselves? ~~Signal does not have reproducible builds~~ (on Android at least) and depends on Play Services for notifications.

EDIT: Seems they have it now (since 2016). I am getting old.

[–] admin@lemmy.haley.io 1 points 2 months ago

His ass. This is a conspiracy theory that’s been going around for ages with dubious sources at best.