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I love revisiting comments like these every 4 years.
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I love revisiting comments like these every 4 years.
Then why are they even still there?
Sunk cost fallacy or misplaced hope are other options outside of Napoleon complex.
Indeed.
It’s a very basic trade that it seems few understand. You MUST trade a bit of convenience to increase your security, or mistakes will happen.
Not doubting that pushy idiots are going to pushy idiot, but I think you’ve strawmanned the actual reason hard enough.
Most people who want it back don’t need, want, or understand why secure messaging exists.
Here’s the simple facts:
SMS is not secure, or private.
Signal is for secure, private comms.
As mildly inconvenient as it is, Signal explained their reasoning in great detail, and I happen to agree: There should never have been an insecure option on a secure messaging app.
YOU CANNOT DOXX WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE.
I may have one on now.
Wholly off topic.
I feel like you should know about this if you don’t already.
Yours is not a common opinion, but that’s beside the point.
The issue here is a combination of end users not using the block functionality, and a major flaw in how it’s implemented (you have to visit that which you want to block.)
You’re never going to change end users’ behavior, so the beatings will continue until blocking functionality improves.
reconsider your approach.
Start with the fucking name. Yikes.
True. Malice and idiocy aren’t mutually exclusive, but you tell me what REPEATEDLY lighting $44B on fire is more likely to be.
Funny enough, it’s actually Hanlon’s razor.
If Daiichi taught me anything, is that you can cause catastrophe by depriving a nuclear plant of auxiliary power.
Yeah. The last time I saw such hubris, it had to be shot in the chest as it tried to climb through a window to prevent the certification of the 2020 election.
The government (and the electorate) needs to do many things right to prevent Cheeto or a Cheeto Analogue from sending the US into abject totalitarian misery, and there’s not a great deal of evidence that will happen.