Wasn't X forced to not have encryption built in due to the US's horrible encryption laws at the time?
Makes me wonder...are there blockchain-based app stores that could serve as a viable alternative?
Blockchain enabled transaction processing where the parties to the transaction don't need to trust each other, as long as they are only transacting in goods stored on the blockchain. Once you get into the world of one party having to physically deliver something the other party will use, you're back to the problem of trust.
So until all software runs on the blockchain, no, as long as you still need to install it onto your device, you need to be able to trust the delivery network. You certainly don't need a central authority for that. Normal desktop devices work perfectly fine with people relying on PGP signatures in common Linux distros or something like Chocolatey on Windows and Brew on Mac. But you don't need a blockchain, either, nor does it add any value.
What does “Services like iMessage do not fall under the traceability clause since the significant social media intermediaries in the nature of messaging services have to comply” mean?
How ironic
It's sort of like a home phone. Law enforcement officials can contact Verizon to learn who you called and who called you, what time, duration of the call, etc.
edit: removed editorializing.
Not that I agree with it. Signal and iMessage have way more in common than they do differently, but at least it’s a coherent sentence.
Add: and Signal's centralized server IPs banned. Signal is really weak here; shouldn't have been centralized to begin with.
Here is Moxie's talk about this very subject, and why he thinks that decentralized products can be much weaker products.
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni
Well that seems pretty idiotic. It should be interesting to see how all this works out.
There still is, of course. Cut and paste works, and android's share works, but both of those send the message out of Signal (and perhaps back into Signal).
The cipherpunk future is fundamentally a dystopia. Trust in authority would be a wonderful thing. I actually thought the authoritarian future would be more subtle and well-tolerated, like “Brave New World”, but it’s shaping up a lot like “1984”, and I can’t understand why a central-authority would self-destruct like that, under no force of occupation.
All the while with Signal app, I’m fairly certain that message content is most secured (than Whatsapp) but is operationally resistant to providing meta-connection info.
Interestingly enough, I find that Matrix (Element iOS app) to be strongest in both aspect of connection metadata and secured message content.
