the rizzler

i don’t agree with everything in that essay but the OTF-CIA connection gives me good reason not to read anything they say. not that everything they fund is bad but everything they say is untrustworthy.

maybe more importantly though, is briar android-only? no desktop app?

i don’t want to make you do my googling for me but if you have anything else just on-hand i’d love to read it. i can’t trust the open tech fund because of its ties to the cia (see this paragraph by dessalines) but i’ll definitely look into briar

do you know of any good in-depth analyses of its security? every time i decide on a new chat app someone has to point out something that totally ruins it lol

unfortunately not. matrix is probably a no because of this thread. i hear a lot of people saying briar is good but idk anything about it

crazy that no one’s posted the dessalines article yet https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md

well there’s about a thousand reasons not to use synapse anyway

what’s wrong with matrix

and yet they all have the same donors and the same lobbyists

europe, despite its efforts to keep up appearances, has been lieutenants of the american empire since bretton woods. they reap the benefits of american empire and in return they never question or undermine it

the people get a choice between a few candidates, all of whom are preapproved in the major parties by the donors, who aren’t really of “the people” in any meaningful sense of the word