On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat. Unmentioned by Whittaker, this budget shortfall results in large part due to the US intelligence community, which lavishly financed Signal’s creation and maintenance over several years, severing its support for the app.
    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Bad actors can buy one.

      What does it cost to buy hundreds? It’s a great deterrent to bad actors creating many accounts.

      I really, really, really dislike using my phone number to verify. Like so much so it kept me off signal until about 6 months ago.

      I get it. I don’t like it, but I get the compromise until they can develop a better mechanism