alt Hacker NewsWhat he did with messaging... So he will centralize all of it with known broken SGX metadata protections, weak supply chain integrity, and a mandate everyone supply their phone numbers and agree to Apple or Google terms of service to use it?
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pousada • today at 1:52 PM
Do you know a better alternative that I can get my elderly parents and non-technical friends to use? I haven’t come across one and from my amateur POV it seems much better than WhatsApp or Telegram.
fsflover • today at 1:41 PM
Not sure why you're gettimg downvoted. This is exactly what he did to instant messaging; extremely damaging to everyone and without solid arguments for such design.
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The issue being there's not really a credible better option. Matrix is the next best, because they do avoid the tie-in to phone numbers and such, but their cryptographic design is not so great (or rather, makes more tradeoffs for usability and decentralisation), and it's a lot buggier and harder to use.