Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema
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Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency
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Session is also sus because you effectively cannot host a node, last I have seen. They claim it is "against a Sybil attack" but all it does is making sure only people wih large disposable funds can have nodes, and the effect might be the exact opposite.
Simplex is more interesting in this regard because while I am concerned with initial centralization (the default servers), they made hosting your own easy. But I personally stick with imperfect yet trusty XMPP.
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SimpleX is great. BUT it's not user friendly. Thus general adoption for the average user will be hard. Don't get me wrong using the app itself is easy but as soon as someone switches their phone that doesn't have technical knowledge they will loose their chats because they won't understand the concept of moving their DB. Since you don't have an identifier like a phone number with SimpleX those people could even lose contacts as a whole since they generate a new DB, hurting their social connections.
That's the reason I personally never recommend SimpleX to anyone who doesn't have the technical knowledge to understand stuff like that.
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It has had some suspicious funding sources
Wait until you find out where computers, the Internet, GPS, weather satellites and Tor came from.
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suspicious funding
Which lines of its libre software source code are malicious?
requires your phone number
It's centralised
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So, which malicious lines of libre software source code have been funded? This is how we stop FUD. Don't let them derail us.
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It's not. Our devices run software, not funding.
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- It requires your phone number
Not anymore, right? Or does it still need your number for signing up?
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Just to sign up
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Signal no longer requires a phone number. You can now create an account. Not sure if that helps your outlook on it, but yeah. It was a fairly recent update that this was rolled out.
Edit: being told we still do need numbers to register. I haven't gotten a new phone since well before the change was made, so I haven't actually created an account and gone through the process. It looks like I misinterpreted what was going on when I read the changelog.
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Last I have seen, it still requires a number to register - it just doesn't have to be public.
What gets me the most is the requirement of a smartphone to register. No way I am trusting my non-public chats to a phone, so that means either Waydroid/VM (which creates issues with copypasting) or signal-cli (which is fairly inconvenient).
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