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Why The Left Should Care About Privacy (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 3 months ago by HailSeitan@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Source? And fyi, if you use Signal you are generating your own encryption keys. Your private keys are generated on your phone and stay on it. So what gives you the idea that

the US government has all the keys

?? Sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Plus, the signal client is open source. You can literally be 100% sure that your keys are being securely generated.