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[–] retro@infosec.pub 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why is this scary? That's what e2ee is for, so that no one besides your recipient can view the contents of a message. It does not matter which server is used. If anything for a service like Signal, you want a server with high availability like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Cloudflare.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Scared because it's centralized. If Amazon decides that it wants to shut Signal down, they can. Nobody can spin up a Signal instance and help out.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

I would be surprised if Signal didn't have a contract with another cloud provider as well, incase of this sort of thing.