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lupi
@lupi

"2023-05-11: The founder of Converso, Tanner Haas, tells me that he and his 'legal team' have a problem with my article, and recommends I remove it. He begins sending me a series of emails, accusing me of defamation and slander, and alleging that I am "either an employee [of Signal] or Moxie himself." Meanwhile, Converso begins removing content from its website and marketing materials, including most of the false or misleading statements quoted in this article."

normal good behavior always.

i always sorta keep "never trust a tech company with an ad spend budget" as a personal rule and as soon as it opened with the writer learning they existed through an ad spot on a podcast, I Had A Feeling.


techokami
@techokami

I think the first red flag was Converso asking for PII (location and employer) in response to the reported issues.

Oh and it gets even worse,

2023-05-14: Converso publishes a new blog post to its website in what appears to be a strategy to outrank, in search engine results, this web page and possibly others that point out Converso's security flaws and misrepresentations. The new post includes the phrase 'testing Converso's claims' in its meta description tag.

SEO abuse to drown out legit research. Very classy.

Thankfully it seems that they completely yanked their wares from the Android and iOS markets. And this has gotten the attention of El Reg:


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in reply to @lexi's post:

it was only a matter of time. i did that because iframely thought it would be a good idea to include one of the last images, showing leaked data, as a thumbnail, which would've spoiled a bit. also, it was 100% handwritten because why not.

it's about like the time that ExpressVPN hired a new CEO whose previous job was CEO of a company that produced malware. anyway, ExpressVPN will def sell your data to the highest bidder and then turn around and also sell it to the lowest bidder.

Love at the bottom where (spoilers) they essentially said "yeah we closed off the database" instead of changing all the rest of the stuff wrong with the system. Also love that the first response was "how do we make it so nobody can decompile the apk"

in reply to @lupi's post:

I say: Don’t believe there’s a competent legal team unless you see something on their letterhead. The first thing a lawyer would have told this prick is “let me handle communications”. The lawyer definitely didn’t sign off on “you work for Signal don’t you” lol