If everyone in #GNULinux and #FOSS was an unencumbered #whiteHat, #Microsoft wouldn't have existed beyond 2017, possibly sooner.
It's clear that #blackHats exist in the #freedomSoftware space.
How can we expect blackHats to gain knowledge on whiteHats and to inhibit them? Universities? MSGitHub? #LinkedIn? CloudFlare'd services?
Our thinking is 'all of the above', but the most effective tools hide in plain sight — #MSLinkedIn and #MSGitHub.
Use them at your eventual peril.
Its quite likely that #metadata-collecting services like #Signal and #Telegram, are an aid to the blackHat.
There is a quote by a US operative, "We kill based on metadata." Such a mantra is easily transferrable to blackHats operating in the freedomSoftware space.
There a many grifters in the tech space and they want to preserve their unjustified (median) income of 300K per annum.
@sebastian_hos
It requires a phone number. That is the metadata we are talking about.
Putting aside that its not a reproducible build and the network infrastructue is closed, we can safely say its leaking Metadata.
Another big problem with Signal is its not a reproducible build either — nor FOSS.
To be honest, I2P allows running #XMPP node so easily, even an Australian can do it.