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Peter Todd

@peterktodd

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Katılım Mayıs 2013
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Peter Todd
Peter Todd@peterktodd·
The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.
Pedro L. Gonzalez@emeriticus

The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always hidden from view, and being unable to see it means you don’t have access to esoteric insights and knowledge. In reality, you’re just reading it wrong. In the case of Russia right now, nobody really knows what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter; all you have to do is come up with the most absurd theory, and the more absurd it is, the truer it must be.

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Maria Avdeeva
Maria Avdeeva@maria_avdv·
Search and rescue in Kyiv complete. 💔 24 killed, including three children. Russia is a rotten, murderous state.
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Peter Todd
Peter Todd@peterktodd·
Common misconception. Signal does _not_ know who is sending messages to who the way people assume they do. They've had Sealed Sender tech for almost a decade: signal.org/blog/sealed-se… Canada's Bill 22 is a serious threat to Signal and they're right to threaten to leave.
Nathan Labbe@Cappy_Nate

Signal is pulling a publicity stunt. They already have your phone number! Which means Signal can already see: -Who you are -When you send -To who you send -But not what the msg is. They already have meta data. It's whether you trust them not to log it (I don't). There's only two main messengers who don't ID: -Session (closing down in 6wk ☹️) -SimpleX (secure AF, but clunky) C-22 is a dumb bill. Shouldn't exist. But this is a stunt.

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Peter Todd
Peter Todd@peterktodd·
@tempstat @Cappy_Nate It's quite hard to get eSIMs with phone numbers attached using anonymous payments. @silentlink1 is the only one I know of and they're frequently out of stock. Also, they can't offer local area codes: all their SIMs are actually via roaming.
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Peter Todd@peterktodd·
@tempstat @Cappy_Nate I also mean that it's quite difficult. Try getting a SIM without ID in Spain for instance. Pretty hard to find one of the vendors that'll fake the ID for you.
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Peter Todd@peterktodd·
@AdamSladkovic @Cappy_Nate Signal contacts are added by QR codes, links, and usernames these days. The phone number thing was always dubious and it's clearly irrelevant now.
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Adam Sládkovič
Adam Sládkovič@AdamSladkovic·
@Cappy_Nate @peterktodd Right after installation, you can see which of your contacts are already using Signal. Simplex simply doesn’t have this kind of UX, which is why only a fraction of people use it. Yes, Signal is centralized, but it collects minimal metadata. For now, it’s a usable messenger.
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Nathan Labbe
Nathan Labbe@Cappy_Nate·
Signal is pulling a publicity stunt. They already have your phone number! Which means Signal can already see: -Who you are -When you send -To who you send -But not what the msg is. They already have meta data. It's whether you trust them not to log it (I don't). There's only two main messengers who don't ID: -Session (closing down in 6wk ☹️) -SimpleX (secure AF, but clunky) C-22 is a dumb bill. Shouldn't exist. But this is a stunt.
iPhone in Canada@iPhoneinCanada

Signal to Ottawa: We’ll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users iphoneincanada.ca/2026/05/14/sig…

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Peter Todd@peterktodd·
@tempstat @Cappy_Nate In some countries. In many countries you can't, including most of the EU. Signal does need to fix this.
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Peter Todd@peterktodd·
@paulmillr Screenshot? I just took a look at my signal and it looks like all the messages are being sent with it.
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Paul Miller
Paul Miller@paulmillr·
@peterktodd I’ve enabled Sealed Sender indicator and not a single chat is using it. It’s been like that for a long time. Unclear why.
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Peter Todd
Peter Todd@peterktodd·
@James32384509 @francispouliot_ Cenotes "only" kill a few people a year. So clearly there is a way to dive them reasonably safely without a line. But yeah, the main source of cave diving fatalities is divers diving in caves who aren't cave divers... No-lines and no training is deadly.
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Peter Todd@peterktodd·
@francispouliot_ Yeah, diving in cenotes is a lot less technical than true cave diving with lines; I'd say you were diving in a cave rather than cave diving. 😂 Diving in an industrial tuna fishing net... Now that's something!
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Windscribe
Windscribe@windscribecom·
We won't be far behind if C-22 passes. In its current state, VPNs would almost certainly require us to log identifying user data. Signal isn't headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is. We pay an ungodly amount of taxes to this corrupt government, and in return they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens. Not happening. We'll move HQ and take our taxes elsewhere.
Globe Politics@globepolitics

Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

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Peter Todd@peterktodd·
@Cappy_Nate Identifiably isn't that important when such a high % of the population is using Signal. Just using it alone isn't (currently) a crime in Canada. Nor is it suspicious. This should still be fixed. But claiming signal is pulling a publicity stunt here is ridiculous.
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Nathan Labbe
Nathan Labbe@Cappy_Nate·
@peterktodd Again. I don't trust, I verify. They can say whatever they want.... As long as they're collecting a Phone Number, I'm assuming they're using it for something. And a Phone is much more identifiable than an IP.
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RGB Hub
RGB Hub@RGB_Hub·
RGB TALKS: Peter Todd From single-use seals to today's stablecoin economy on Bitcoin. @peterktodd at @LuganoPlanB on how he came up with client-side validation and why Lightning is set to converge all Bitcoin L2s,including RGB Protocol on Bitcoin. Check-out the full interview
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Peter Todd@peterktodd·
@Cappy_Nate You're welcome to criticize signal for that, and I agree that they need to replace it with an alternative like a crypto payment. But the fact is your criticism of their meta data re: sending is wrong.
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Nathan Labbe
Nathan Labbe@Cappy_Nate·
@peterktodd If Signal wasn't using your phone number as ID, it wouldn't collect it in the first place. Any app that KYC's a user is not trustworthy by default.
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James Lindsay, anti-Communist
James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames·
I read the most profound thing I think I've ever read about European support for "Palestine," and I don't think I'll be able to unsee it now. It's that by imagining Palestine to be real and the victim of Jewish colonialism and genocide, they can imagine Jews as the actual Nazis and thereby assuage themselves of their overwhelming guilt for the 20th century, not to mention a long and ugly history before. By finding a way to stain the Jews and Israel with those same moral evils they themselves feel the weight of, but for imaginary instead of genuine reasons, Europeans can not only remove but reverse the mark of the evil they inflicted on Jews over their entire history, not remotely least during the Holocaust. Thus, and only thus, can they forgive themselves for their unforgivable sins, but like everything Leftist, it's empty and inverted.
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Justin Martin
Justin Martin@thefrozenfire·
@peterktodd When I first saw mention of this, my thought was that it must be a different organization called "IPFS". But no, it's the peer-to-peer content distribution network technology foundation. The political skinsuiting of tech organizations is out of control.
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