Comment on What's the deal with Signal?
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoI don’t think I’ve ever seen people say it has CIA financial backing. It did however until only a couple of years ago have strong ties to the State Department Open Tech Fund (from the same financial envelope that brings you RFA/RFE/VOA).
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The main developer of Lemmy seems to think there’s a solid connection. I’m not jumping in that fight, I got no dog in that fight, I don’t have that kind of threat model.
dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#c…
However, considering he’s openly Marxist, he may be just slightly biased.
I suspect OP of this post actually saw the recent /c/Privacy thread over at lemmy.ml where Dessalines was proselytizing against Signal while not seeming to have a problem with SimpleX chat being funded by a group of Venture Capital investors, including Jack Dorsey.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Openly Marxist is just the start of it. Dude is utterly unhinged, so his theories don’t mean a lot to me unless they’re backed by evidence.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Nothing in there is incorrect.