[Replicant] Using signal/textsecure

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Mon Nov 9 19:39:10 UTC 2015


Tyler <tyler at hack.ink> writes:

> I personally recommend just building from source. Moxie and xmikos had a
> fight over naming shit, I don't want to piss off Moxie any more than we
> already have because I want to keep using his software. Piss off moxie
> enough and he may decide to make our lives harder and blacklist us from
> the main TextSecure Server which then means you'd have to start running
> your own server infrastructure and distribute custom apks to your
> friends so they could talk to you.

Having a centralized server infrastructure can be a
security/privacy/foss concern as well.  Are there any free software
Signal servers out there?  If one person has the ability to ban
arbitrary people from the network, that raise a red flag to me.

/Simon
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