Signal video and voice calls are now supported for up to 75 participants!

disorderlyf@todon.eu

@lexinova @signalapp The use of GCloud and Azure was something I hadn't heard about before. The implications are not great.

cappyjax@mastodon.social

@AndrewRiddell1 @signalapp this feature has been there for almost 2 years now, they simply bumped up how many people can join a call from 50 to 75.

jackemled@furry.engineer

@costalfy @signalapp @KazukyAkayashi I think they use Amazon for hosting.

lexinova@cyberplace.social

@disorderlyf @signalapp and when put in front of the issue their CEO lied it was impossible to use something else ... when dozen of FOSS software do the "impossible thing" simply telling community we won't we are NAZI and won't prevent our Nazi to cut us if necessary.

They don't care about their user

qgustavor@urusai.social

@AndrewRiddell1 @signalapp Tell that to those Delta Chat fans that think that adding a feature that adds so much complexity is fun and expected of a chat app.

(a sandboxed JavaScript-based app platform, because I guess no one ever managed to find a sandbox escape vulnerability on a browser right? so let's add it to an app where the risks of a cryptographic key leaking can undermine the entire app! so FUN!)

qgustavor@urusai.social

@signalapp Let's be serious here: you need urgently to publish somewhere (a blog post, here on Mastodon) about what's your plan in case something bad happens in the USA.

From "what if the government asks permanent access to Signal servers to store user metadata and encrypted messages (which they will surely store in the hope to decrypt later in case someone finds a way to do so)" to "what if the USA's government shut down the entire service". What's your plan? People need to know that. Things are escalating too fast for people to ignore.

villon@bildung.social

@signalapp
Stay away with that centralized UᛇᛇA-shit.

fluffywolfjasper@furries.club

@signalapp now if I only I HAD even close to that number of people on signal..

clock@f.cz

@signalapp Signal IMO has bad security because when someone decides they are not interested in an overpriced, underperforming service of "phone number" and stops using their SIM, they cannot deregister the number from Signal and the new owner of the number either can hijack their Signal account, or people may be blocked from using newly purchased SIMs with Signal.

Also, authoritarian regimes IMO can temporarily transfer a number into a provider's internal SIM in order to hijack a Signal account and impersonate a dissident against another dissident, facilitating abduction, torture and murder.

I feel

c o n t e m p t

towards Signal when it is designed this way.

#badsecurity #incompetence #signal #phonenumberasidentity #security #SIM #contempt #securityhole #securityflaw #attack #hijacking #torture #murder #abduction #authoritarianism #regime #authoritarian

gettie@fedi.catto.garden

@clock also, here's a simple problem i had to face. i lost access to my phone number and since the signal account is tied to that specific phone number, i can't use the account anymore.
@signalapp

opensourceyllen@mastodon.social

@signalapp I wonder how many does WhatsApp allow

buckrogers1965@techhub.social

@clock @signalapp

Is signal open source? Can't someone fork the code and change it to be pure peer to peer over onion routing to set up credentials?

kkarhan@infosec.space

@signalapp great, now you'll increase your #VCmoneyBurningParty's wastefulness whilst adressing 0 Issues already raised about #Signal!

kaye@ayom.media

@villon @signalapp

What's happening?

yama@social.n0g.de

@signalapp ?? still cant share screen on phone.

julie@merida.hair

@signalapp@mastodon.world Please give us "servers" like Discord. I beg you.

clock@f.cz

@BuckRogers1965 @signalapp I don't know. Even if Signal were open source, I don't know how to compile Signal and upload onto iPhone so that it actually runs, without me spending unacceptable amount of resources (money, time, nerves), and I don't know whether it's not intentionally obstructed.

buckrogers1965@techhub.social

@clock @signalapp

Do you have to compile signal now? I am confused, why would you have to compile anything if it is open source?

lexinova@cyberplace.social

@kouichi @disorderlyf they are dumb enough to disable something they use themself, just look all the US departement they disabled, and reenabled when they have seen the damage (not the one judge forced them to reopen).

clock@f.cz

@BuckRogers1965 @signalapp Because if you change the source and don't compile it, the old binary will run and the change won't apply.

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Signal video and voice calls are now supported for up to 75 participants!