Cathal, thank you for pointing out the hypocrisy of privacy app
developers not making their apps available without a Google account. I
too refuse to have a Google account so cannot use Google Play.
Thanks for making TextSecure available to non Google account holders.
Where can TextSecure be downloaded?
On 11/11/2014 2:31 pm, Cathal (Phone) wrote:
It's an enduring disappointment to those of us too security/privacy
conscious to install Google Play that Moxie refuses to distribute
signed APKs through any other channel. It also confuses the heck out
of me that someone who makes an app *explicitly* to guard against
intermediaries doesn't actually understand why I might distrust Google
as much as my network provider.
Anyways, without a Google account Redphone performs very poorly, so I
don't use it, but I've got a good network of Textsecure users going
based on self-compiled, unmaintained APKs, precisely the outcome Moxie
claims Google Play helps prevent. Bad Incentives, I guess.
On 11 November 2014 17:30:09 GMT+00:00, odinn
<[email protected]> wrote:
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Yes, I have an idea. The US corporation-state is unhappy that people
can make sexy calls (or any other calls) to each other that the US
corporation-state is not privy to. They have complained to Google.
Someone pulled it from the store. A debate ensued on whether or not
that would be appropriate, thus while hot air is being expelled the
other secure apps remain in Google's Play store.
Nonetheless the apps will remain available elsewhere even if pulled
from store.
There is a thread related to these issues on twitter which I recommend
you visit (dated from the time when Google Play had censored
adblockplus and disconnectme, removing them from the Google Play
store):
https://twitter.com/AnonyOdinn/status/506325144382341120
Text of the statements which started the thread, my response to it,
and adblockplus's response:
"ashkan soltani @ashk4n Aug 29
Conflict of interests - Google removes privacy preserving apps
@AdblockPlus and @disconnectme from Android Play store
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/28/why-some-privacy-apps-get-blocked-from-the-android-play-store/...";
"@dgouldin @ashk4n Yes, & @disconnectme @AdblockPlus @bitpay +others
should provide links (to dl client) independent from any website
service"
"Adblock Plus @AdblockPlus Sep 1
@AnonyOdinn @dgouldin @ashk4n You can grab our APK here:
https://adblockplus.org/en/android";
George W. Maschke:
Early today, 11 November 2014, Open Whisper Systems' RedPhone app
was removed from the Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.redphone
By contrast, TextSecure remains available:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms
and Open Whisper Systems' iOS app, Signal, remains available:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-messenger/id874139669
Any ideas what may have happened?
George Maschke PGP Public Key: 316A947C
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