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Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development (aboutsignal.com)

submitted 2 months ago by unglueclass23@programming.dev to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Signal desktop has been a thing for years at this point. On Linux too. However, you could not register it to desktop only. You had to have the mobile app and then register the desktop app, so there was a dependency. This is about to change now.

[–] quantumvoid0@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ooo didnt know about that ill try it, i came to hear that WhatsApp is also gonna have a username based system...i dont think thats gonna make it any better

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It really isn't, and recently there have been claims that WA has 3ssentially backdoored its encryption and can read everything.

[–] quantumvoid0@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

whats with big corps messing everything up.... why haven't people switched to FOSS yet

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Plenty of reasons: inertia, vendor lock-in network effect, lack of knowledge or awareness, or plain ol' stupidity.

But on a less pessimistic note: I'm pleased to say that I can reach pretty much all of my contacts via Signal these days. It's reached critical mass where I am.