Blastoidea
Well said! I don't know who to quote on this one but "don't let perfection be the enemy of progress". If I can convince someone to learn about PGP Great! If I can get them to use signal awesome! If I can get them to wrap their head around why something like E2EE is important but they're stuck on using whatsapp, that's fine too.
My experience in trying to spread awareness on security & privacy has been that there is nothing wrong with incremental improvements and pushing too much complexity on a newcomer is the best way to drive them straight into the arms of blissful ignorance, which is the worst possible outcome.
Better than Signal?
Blastoidea The Senate and their staff have been ordered by their chief of security to use Signal - and they already have hardened, more secure government cell phones (I always wonder what they do for that and if it is more secure than GOS. Heck, maybe they use GOS).
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MoonshineMidnight
Interesting, I hadn’t heard that.
Just remember that a significant number of those folks would cheerfully vote for legislation which forbade you and me from using encrypted communications.
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AlanZ Hopefully this is will be addressed soon, but you also aren't met by a completely empty contact list. Phone numbers are there for a reason, but good on Threema for making both approaches work, although my contact list is still at zero, just like it was when I first purchased it.
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People looking at XMPP might be interested to read XMPP: Admin-in-the-middle by now defunct Infosec Handbook and associated HN discussions here and here. It mostly applies to using third party servers, not hosting your own.
MoonshineMidnight
On metadata - see discussion at
https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/12vehzr/comment/jhdb2oe/
and
https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/12vehzr/comment/jhmm0sd/
for references.
zzz
No link able sources, but read about Australia and encryption.
US politicians are no better than Australian politicians, to say the least.
And “our” government is constantly dinging them to “take action” on the “problem” of encryption for the citizenry.
Blastoidea I.e. your government wants to ban encrypted messaging?
supersonic My 0.02 cents. Creator of ,,tinfoil chat'' which is a really secure communicator, has a long reddit history of saying unpleasant things about SimpleX. Sadly i cant say much specyficaly as i was reading this long time ago
Tuba the now-deleted posts he was responding to, you mean?
supersonic not sure, like i said, i read it long time ago
Javcek
Law enforcement never stops trying to gain access to encrypted communications, through lobbying legislators, or any other method they can think up or access.
supersonic That's fine and dandy, but those are threads boosting SimpleX. I read quite a bit of FUD on Signal.
About Signal... Every instant messenger that presents me with Google Captcha can go fuck itself.
AlanZ
Example(s)?
Blastoidea
Signal does it when you create a new account. At least it used to, once I saw this, I uninstalled the stupid thing right away. Hell, even Molly does it, albeit with hCaptcha (not much better).