alt Hacker NewsIf the premise contributing to the conclusion to run their own chat service is:
> But Signal is still one company running one service. If they shut down tomorrow or change direction, I’m back to square one.
Aren't they in the same boat now with Cloudflare and Let's Encrypt?
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elric • today at 2:51 PM
There are obviously other CDNs (or whatever Cloudflare considers itself to be these days) and other certificate authorities. They are all interchangeable thanks to open protocols (HTTP, TLS/ACME in this case). Contrasted to Signal: there are no other implementations.
yosamino • today at 2:47 PM
Not really. If their own their domain, then it's possible to swap out CF and LE for different companies.
That would certainly be a very annoying event, but not an unrecoverable one.
Yes, probably but they are “easily” replaced. More easily than Signal in any case.
Also if we go down this road, we’re all depending on our internet access provider at the very least too! At some point we gotta know when to stop trying to be fully independent from the rest of the world. He chose there.