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How checklists lie with facts, and are bad for figuring out privacy of apps etc. (soatok.blog)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/20989376

Where Soatok goes over why checklists are meaningless when trying to figure out if something is private or just for comparisons in general.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

That's both fair and not fair. I think Signal shows how to do privacy correctly by having pretty much no metadata to give. Most other messengers cannot say the same.

But yes, having some kind of legal recourse is important too.