• /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    My friend messaged me on Signal asking if Instructure (runs on AWS) was down. I got the message. That being said, it’s scary that Signal’s backbone depends on AWS

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      Why is this scary? That’s what e2ee is for, so that no one besides your recipient can view the contents of a message. It does not matter which server is used. If anything for a service like Signal, you want a server with high availability like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Cloudflare.

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        Willing to bet a lot of companies will be considering that now lol. Will it actually happen though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯