I've literally read the code for Signal's double-ratchet protocol. It's extremely high quality cryptography, written in Rust, open source, with several independent audits.
The server code isn't open, but we know they (used to?) use Intel SGX enclaves so the contact metadata is sealed from even the Signal Foundation. Admittedly SGX fell prey to a number of speculative execution attacks, but Signal had no way of foreseeing that.
Also, Moxie hasn't been involved since 2022.
What on Earth does Signal requiring phone numbers have to do with Israel?
the pie is getting smaller but the oligarchs are getting bigger slices.
the Classicists and the classists!
is there a matrix client for Android? last I checked there was like, one, and it wasn't very good. whereas there's like 14 different Lemmy apps, many of which are fabulous.
usually when politicians use Signal it's because they don't want their messages FOIA'd or audited. I can't really imagine Vance or Hegseth worrying about that, though, which makes me wonder if it's just horrible opsec, if they can't be bothered to use a SCIF or what?
fun fact: Windows uses 9p for bridging the Windows and Linux filesystems with WSL2. the devs had excellent taste in protocols.
Isn't jfx still actually using HTML and CSS, though? like it's cool that the UI logic is in Java, but doesn't using CSS mean you still need to lug a rendering engine around, even if not a whole browser?
you're right, apparently. from Wikipedia:
The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges."
AR-15 is semi-auto rather than selective fire, so it's not an assault rifle. I had mistakenly conflated assault rifles with "assault weapons," which is a separate (and more vague and contested) term.
you can still buy an M-16 or AK-47, but it has to be transferrable (grandfathered in before FOPA) and you need extra paperwork.
you can buy an AR-15 in any gun store. they even make a "JR-15," for kids. no, I'm not kidding.
Lockpicks. One day the bathroom door somehow locked from the inside without anyone in there, and I really needed to pee. Really came in handy. ~~Turns out you could just use a flathead screwdriver, there wasn't an actual lock cylinder, but don't take this from me!~~