Did anyone ever consider that this is actually on purpose to deter people from using Signal by it's authors?
Lets imagine, theoretically, some three letter agency in the US has forced signal to backdoor their platform somehow, and so signal stops posting source code to the clients, and everyone just keeps on using it for a year even though the authors thought that maybe this would be a big red "DANGER" signal to the users (who they're not legally allowed to inform, or shutdown the platform for any more) then how else could you try and mitigate this?
Pushing a shitcoin onto a largely tech user base may do the trick eh?
Or maybe I just put on my tinfoil hat this morning..
That's highly unlikely and not the way one deals, with this kind of thing. The responsible thing to do in that case is to shutdown your operation, just what lavabit did back in 2013.
Theories like this are interesting because if you have a hundred of them one is probably true. It's definitely plausible even if it seems on the face unlikely. It's interesting enough that this is what I'm going to take from the story anyway so thx for putting on the hat
I think it's just a bad call. I don't think there's anything nefarius to it. I'm unsure why they didn't use a real cryptocurrency that is somewhat popular like ethereum or monero. I would prefer none of that and to add more convenient messaging features.
Lets imagine, theoretically, some three letter agency in the US has forced signal to backdoor their platform somehow, and so signal stops posting source code to the clients, and everyone just keeps on using it for a year even though the authors thought that maybe this would be a big red "DANGER" signal to the users (who they're not legally allowed to inform, or shutdown the platform for any more) then how else could you try and mitigate this?
Pushing a shitcoin onto a largely tech user base may do the trick eh?
Or maybe I just put on my tinfoil hat this morning..