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There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS (www.theverge.com)
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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean, Signal's encryption is literally based of OTR's which was popular on XMPP for like a decade before Signal came around, OMEMO further added ratcheting which allows for one party to be offline when starting the convo.