#MeaCulpa. Anyone who follows me will have seen me vigorously defending #Wire as preferably to #Signal, and one of the reasons I gave was that Wire were a private company (not VC-funded or corporate owned), based in Europe, where the tech industry is more strongly regulated to protect user privacy than the US, where Signal is based. Looks like Wire have set up a US partner entity to funnel VC into the company :(
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2019 05:03:05 UTC Strypey -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2019 08:25:52 UTC Strypey @LPS I'm a strong critic of #Signal but I'd pick even that over #Telegram. The ability to stand up a Signal server and test it against their clients gives at least some chance of checking that the Signal servers run on the code they publish. Not possible with Telegram's proprietary server software.
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Aaron Gibson (afrogeek@squeet.me)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 19:29:36 UTC Aaron Gibson ♲ @danie10@squeet.me:
Do your contacts a favour and make yourself available on Signal and / or Telegram today so THEY can switch
The irony of it is many people say they can't switch away from Whatsapp as "their contacts are not there". But if they are also not there, their contacts don't switch. With today's phones and push notifications, you can easily have five or more instant messengers running with no negative effect. So why do so many people only sit on Whatsapp which will not let its desktop app run without the active presence of the mobile phone (bad luck on Whatsapp if your phone battery is flat or you lose the phone)? Telegram, for example, allows way bigger groups and better group management, as well as better bot ability from applications.
Do your friends a favour and load another alternative messenger or tow on your phone today!
See #^businesstech.co.za/news/mobile…
#deletewhatsapp #telegram #signal
Twitter https://businesstech.co.za/news/mobile/333741/big-changes-coming-to-whatsapp-including-adverts-and-a-name-change/amp/WhatsApp will get a name change alongside Instagram to make it clear that the companies are owned by Facebook. The rebranded apps will now be called “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook.” Bloomberg reports that the move is controversial because both of the apps were born outside of Facebook, have very different corporate cu...
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2019 12:16:05 UTC Strypey I noted some time back that #Signal were also developing a digital wallet feature for their chat app. Having seen their #E2EE tech integrated into FB Messenger, I have to wonder if some of those millions FB have given to #OWS (developers of Signal) have been funding them to work on the underlying tech of Libra for them. This potentially means that volunteers are working on code for Signal's payments features, thinking they are supporting #SoftwareFreedom, but actually working for FB.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2019 08:04:06 UTC Strypey @nurinoas that last one I think is key, because adoption is strongly shaped by #NetworkEffect Imagine if users of every #Jabber app, every #Matrix app, every standalone chat app like #Wire or #Signal, could chat with Jami users! Even #fediverse apps for that matter!
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2019 04:56:36 UTC Strypey @gael FWIW I would prefer delta.chat as default over apps for centralized chat networks controlled by one organization (eg #Signal or #Telegram. But unless and until #deltaChat is more widely adopted, particularly by mobile PureOS et al, it doesn't address goals 2) or 3). OTOH if your larger strategic goal is to jailbreak users from #DataFarms and push adoption of open tech, it could still be a good choice.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2019 17:38:13 UTC Strypey @imacrea #Jabber with #OMEMO is production-ready AFAIK, but it relies on the servers and clients at both ends supporting OMEMO (it's an optional extra) and implementing it correctly. At this point I would probably use #Briar (if you're both on Android) or #Jami, no servers, less attack surface. If you need something noob-friendly, #Wire (I don't trust or use #Signal for various reasons but some people say it's noob-friendly and their #E2EE tech is widely used).
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2019 10:41:45 UTC Strypey @inditoot
the #Signal blog post about federation, like Signal apologetics in general, is misleading in a whole bunch of ways that have been discussed exhaustively on the fediverse and elsewhere on the web. See:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/signal-fault
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maloki 🍵 (maloki@elekk.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2019 22:41:51 UTC maloki 🍵 If you use #Signal for SMS too, will it default to SMS when you don't have an internet connection, or will it ask you?
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Fla (fla@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2019 07:41:58 UTC Fla @Bruno_Callens oui, telegram n'est pas la solution, #signal serait bien mieux.
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Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2019 17:01:35 UTC Annika Backstrom ugh you can only link #Signal to one device. I can't have Signal on both my phone and my tablet.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2019 09:03:20 UTC Strypey #OWS are the Apple of chat apps. Their software is based on a #FreeCode core, but the packaged #Signal app is effectively proprietary software, because you're not allowed to compile it yourself and connect that binary to their servers. The Signal service is effectively proprietary because you're not allowed to use third-party clients with it. Like Apple, they use "open source" in all the ways that benefit themselves, not the ways that respect user freedoms.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2019 05:19:15 UTC Strypey @librelounge I think the reason XMPP never took off - putting aside gOgle's embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with #GoogleTalk - is that most people can't cope with choosing a server. I've tried to get people to use #Mumble for voice meeings and that's the bit that seems to really throw them. Which might also explain why, among the #FreeCode chat apps, centralized ones like #Signal and #Wire have more traction than decentralized ones like #Conversation (XMPP) and #Riot (Matrix).
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 15:58:23 UTC Strypey @blaubachn this has nothing to do with whether #Matrix is better than #Signal. The two are not in competition. One is an instant messenger service (like WhatsApp), the other is a group chat service (like Slack) They serve quite different purposes. I wouldn't use Signal. I don't trust the people who make it, because they make claims about security that don't hold water. I would rather use unencrypted XMPP and watch what I say, than use an encrypted app I don't trust.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 15:47:43 UTC Strypey @blaubachn
> F-Droid users don't need to take action because they are not being as cautious with it.No. We don't need to be as cautious because F-Droid builds the apps they distribute from source. So unlike the gOgle Prey Store, or an .APK on a website, a Bad Actor can't push a fake .APK into F-Droid by stealing keys from the app maker. So Moxie banning F-Droid from distributing #Signal makes it significantly less secure for Signal users. Does my criticism make sense now?
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2019 09:58:27 UTC Strypey @mattcen they are also a pretty major piece of metadata! Unlike email / XMPP addresses, they're can usually be traced quickly and easily back to warm bodies. Also, I don't get why demanding user's phone numbers it's creepy and invasive when #DataFarms like FB or gOgle do it, but ok when #Signal do it.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2019 09:22:24 UTC Strypey @mattcen how confident are #Signal users that this will never happen to them?
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2019 08:04:13 UTC Strypey Long post about recent security breach at Matrix.org potentially affecting the version of #Riot available in the gOgle Prey Store:
https://medium.com/@RiotChat/riot-im-android-security-update-2b3f655ad739"The F-Droid release of Riot is not affected — this only affects the Google Play Store app"
Hey Moxie, what was that again about Gogle being a more secure way to distribute the #Android apps for #Signal? It boggles the mind that anyone believes this.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2019 19:09:10 UTC Strypey @Nesaijn according to comments in the issue you linked #Wire are working on reducing stored metdata with in their work with the #MLS protocol. #Signal requires a phone number and a mobile device, and does its best to enslave its users on Android to goOgle Play Store, all of which create potential metadata leaks.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2019 19:02:22 UTC Strypey @rysiek AFAIK this is still an issue with the official #Wire client on Android but:
a) they are happy to let users *use* their software freedom by connecting to their servers with unofficial clients. #Signal are not
b) they want to get their app into #FDroid. Signal have explicitly denied F-Droid permission to distribute independently compiled builds under the name Signal.
c) are any of these Android issues relevant to building a client for #Sailfish?
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