Link to article from main Lemmy❤️ developer about Signal privacy. Mostly fair points. I kinda distrust so centralized services but basically we have no other options (Matrix is buggy in many aspects). What can you say about this article?

  • DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social
    01·
    1 year ago

    Snowden doesn’t make any public statements any more without express permission from the Russian government. You can’t trust anything he’s said in the past few years, especially not since the war began.

    • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      Snowden doesn’t make any public statements any more without express permission from the Russian government.

      Can you provide sources for this?

      It might make sense for him to self-censor to avoid angering one of the few places that are allowing him to stay but even that’s not a given: if he felt something needed to be said badly enough, he’s shown to be the type of person who would rather something be said and take the repercussions on the nose than to leave something unsaid.

    • figaro@lemdro.id
      3·
      1 year ago

      All of these comments are completely off the rails. He informed us about one of the largest violations of privacy in the history of mankind. For that, he had to go on the run. He ended up in Russia, but not by choice.

      If he wants to retire there and just keep his mouth shut, he should have our fucking blessing. The one thing he did was bigger than anything we could ever hope to accomplish lol.