Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco. Just thinking about it makes me want to read this masterpiece again.
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When people in conversations tell me they've got nothing to hide, I routinely ask them for their bank details.
Why does Signal need my phone number?
Signal is subject to National Security Letters in the U.S.
Signal received funding from Radio Free Asia owned by the U.S. Agency for Global Media with ties to the CIA.
They seem to have a history of needing quite some time to release the server source code.
Here are some articles to read about Signal:
Stray.
This the dystopia we chose for ourselves.
Meanwhile the perpetrator gets over a โฌ 1 million via crowdfunding. WTF France!?
If you'd like to have a laugh, I very much recommend Pink Fohawk. It's a shadowrun actual play podcast, with an emphasis on fun.
We should be aware that signal might not be the promised lands. It was created by a CIA affiliate. It's also suspectible to National Security Letters from the U.S., requiring it to disclose information about its users.
A viable alternative might be France based Olvid. But I haven't done much research on them.
Sources:
Currently it feels like a reverse Golgafrincham situation. We got rid of the useless third by jumping ship. Let's convince them we got swallowed by an enormous mutant Star-Goat ๐คฉ https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrincham
My first theory was that it was just Naomi Watts' character's masturbation fantasy laid out on film. I still have to watch it a second time to confirm though ๐ฌ