mmPzf

As always, that depends on your threat model. I'm definitely not an expert on the matter, but in the last couple of months there were a number of vulnerabilities in electron apps, including Slack, Discord, and Microsoft teams. The Signal desktop app is also electron based, so I wouldn't be surprised if some vulnerability was published in the next couple of months. Additionally, I have no idea how exactly the signal desktop app stores its data, and how easy it would be to extract it.

Personally, I'd stay away from the desktop app if I (or the source) were actively targeted by someone with enough resources to spend on either electron bugs, or other ways of accessing my computer. That includes spear phishing.

mmPzf

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Can you name some examples? According to the internet for most practical purposes the terms "open source" and "free software" refer to the same set of licenses [0]

[0]: https://opensource.com/article/17/11/open-source-or-free-sof...

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I'm a bit confused by the "open source but not free" statement in the readme. How common is it to refer to software with public source code as "open source"? I always thought the "open source" label applied only to those licenses officially certified as open source.

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One of my guesses is security. The story behind the discovery of MS08-067 reads like a strong argument in favour of some telemetry. The TLDR is that someone at Microsoft noticed a strange crash in some telemetry bucket, and it turned out to be a wormable zero-day. There's a write up at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/johnla/the-in..., for those interested, and even though that story is twelve years old by now the general premise still stands.

mmPzf

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mmPzf

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A big plus for me was the option of using it without mapping the user account to a phone number, something that e.g. Signal doesn't allow.

mmPzf

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I remember reading this. I also remember reading a compelling argument that the conclusions drawn by those studies were wrong, and that the actual cause for the difference in walking speed is age. People in big cities tend to be younger (due to urban migration, and whatnot), and with lower age comes faster walking speed.

I can't remember where that argument was made, and I never fact checked it, so take it with a grain of salt. However, it seems much more convincing than the 'pace of life' argument.

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