Privacy-focused messaging app Signal is adding new features for video calls, including links, reactions and a calls tab, in a bid to pose as an alternative to Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams.

  • Skydancer@pawb.social
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    12 days ago

    No, that was an excuse. They claimed people could mistakenly send unencrypted messages. Easily resolved by changing the color of conversations and send buttons to flag SMS as insecure.

    It was really about moving development resources to features like this one. Unfortunately, it makes it much harder to convince people to use (or keep using) Signal, meaning more messages that go by insecure messaging instead.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 days ago

      Disagree. Consider that Pegasus’s vector was very often specially crafted SMS payloads.