Anyone else wondering?

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    1 year ago

    You literally made up an argument no one made in this thread.

    I literally was not confined to this thread, which is blatantly obvious if you know how context works.

    The fact of the matter is that it is unwise to have both secure and insecure messaging side-by-side.

    Skill issue. If it’s too hard for some people to pay attention to what they’re doing and use a tool correctly, they can buy a Vsmile. This is all ignoring the fact that no human being could possibly fuck it up on Signal unless they’re too illiterate to send text messages—or indeed use a cell phone—in the first place.

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      1 year ago

      I literally was not confined to this thread, which is blatantly obvious if you know how context works.

      Making up an argument no one in the discussion has made is called the “Strawman Fallacy”. Why should anyone in this thread care that you talked to someone (allegedly) that was so dense that they made a bad argument that you got frustrated with?

      If it’s too hard for some people to pay attention to what they’re doing and use a tool correctly

      Ah, so much hyperbole. If I’m successfully stripping all of it away, is seems that your argument is that it is impossible (P=0) to accidentally send an SMS message in Signal, thinking it was a secure message. Is that really your stance? Admittedly, there was a lot of hyperbole so I might have missed the actual point. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

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        1 year ago

        “muh fallacy”

        I didn’t know this was reddit

        I might have missed the actual point.

        You deliberately missed the point, and seem to think I can’t tell you’re being deliberately obtuse.

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          A fallacy is just pointing out that your argument isn’t likely to arrive at the truth. As I explained, your “I met a dumb person and so all arguments against this are dumb” stance isn’t useful, even if we agree you’re not just making that all up.

          I asked for clarification. Is that your stance? That it’s fundamentally impossible that someone could accidentally send a SMS in Signal while thinking it is secured? I’m going to assume that you don’t believe it’s fundamentally impossible, so that mean your real stance is that if that happens and someone gets sent to jail or worse, that’s a small price to pay for your convenience of not having to *checks notes* switch between two apps.

          Do you see how your lack of perspective might be leading you to make a poor argument?