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adamfisk | 4 years ago

Um, ok. All of the above projects use not only reproducible builds for many platforms, but they’re all open source, and they all have public security audits. Those three pillars are about as good as it gets. Is there something you would add?

I’m not claiming PBS and the BBC are perfect entities, but they do offer an alternative source of information that runs against the grain of corporate media. You would prefer…what exactly?

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pphysch|4 years ago

> Is there something you would add?

Let's start with "not being created/funded by the State Department or Pentagon".

> You would prefer…what exactly?

Again, let's start with "not being blatant propaganda produced by warmongers".

adamfisk|4 years ago

First, there’s a vast difference between the state department and the pentagon. Lumping those two together just reflects an unsophisticated understanding of the federal government. Signal has never received any state department or pentagon money. Tor had a significant early contribution from a researcher at Naval Research. That’s the extent of any pentagon funding. They have received significant state department funding, but to call the state department “warmongers” is just not accurate.