The comments of that tweet are nothing but “Signal is full of huge design flaws”

Right, because “add user to group” is a design flaw.

I’ve heard a few people try and demonize Signal even before this goofy situation by claiming terrorists use it to plan attacks and I’m just sat over here like: yeah? Terrorists have also used youtube, Facebook, Twitter, discord and every other platform under the sun to organize and recruit to their groups.

And now there’s this blunder (?) And somehow Signal is bad for the decisions other people make on the app? Which btw, I don’t believe for a second that that was an accident. You will have to actually make an effort to add someone to a chat who doesn’t belong there.

And I’m sorry, but I think the comment is pretty funny. I dunno. Maybe I’m just completely morally bankrupt or missing the bigger picture, but every negative thing I have heard people say about Signal is just bizarre. I genuinely don’t understand what the issue is.

Need I remind anyone of how ISIS used Facebook and messenger in 2018 to post brutal execution videos of two scandinavian girls around Christmas and sending that shit to everyone on the girls’ friends lists? As much as I hate Facebook I wouldn’t dream of blaming them for some subhuman scum abusing their service for nefarious reasons.

Imagine using a hammer to remove a screw from a beam.

It’s possible, but it’s not the right tool. It’s frankly dangerous, and probably going to damage something.

But, a hammer, when used on nails, is really good at what it does.

Signal encrypts your message, sends it to the recipient, and the recipient’s Signal decrypts the message when they view it.

It is open source, so we can verify it does that ourselves. What that means is that a reader who is not the receiver of the message cannot read it.

That does NOT MEAN:

1. The receiver is who you intended it to be.
2. The receiver is uncompromised.

Signal also DOES NOT:

1. Have control lists to your group discussions.
2. Verify the receiver is who they say they are

The benefit is:

1. We know that the message sent is encrypted.
2. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc, can’t route your message through their servers en route to your recipient. Or well, they can at a low level, but it would just be a garbled mess anyway.

Gonna download Signal now and hope that I get into the secret Area 51 group chat where they just share pictures of aliens and alien technology they’re playing with.

✊🇺🇸🔥

Been using it since Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan

So the military uses Signal…

Did Moxie use AI to write this post? I honestly can’t tell.