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Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Signal: over a decade of leaking nothing and providing a great service for free, with some weird hiccups along the way like cryptocurrency.

Privacy "advocates": fuck signal

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

if they leaked something you wouldn't know because US government law doesn't allow them to disclose if they requested data.
uses AWS servers that also the gov could ask for access to Amazon directly without even talking to Signal, being centralized and depending on AWS infra is also a weakness.
needing phone numbers to register, often tied to passport and it is super easy to get your whole network when compromising 1 device
all centralized services start nice, attracting users, once they have you, and money starts being a problem.... meet: enshitification

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If they were leaking there would be prosecutors using the evidence in court, on the public record.
It doesn't matter what infrastructure that they use because the service provides end to end encryption. This remains secure even if a third party is able to record all of the traffic between the two devices.
Has there ever been a single instance where a Signal client had a RCE exploit? Of all of the software on your phone likely to be exploited, signal is low on the list (your browser is where they get you).
Enshittification is a reason to leave, speculation about maybe possible enshittification in the future is not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

Finally, common sense. Thank you.