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Don’t forget about the year she spent asking Signal to put a warning in place for Android users that have third-party keyboards. Apparently an extremely common thing in China and something that totally undermines Signal’s security without people realising.

Signal put the warning in, of course, after she got enough white men to repeat her request. Until the right people reported the problem, the only response she got was Moxie blocking her and dismissing the issue. I don’t see how that isn’t an operational vulnerability a mile wide for Signal: security problems go ignored if people from the wrong demographic report them.



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