▲ 412 ▼ The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org) submitted 3 years ago by igalmarino@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 70 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 14 points 3 years ago (3 children) Alternatives that aren’t so obscure you can’t get your family/friends to switch? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] jet@hackertalks.com 16 points 3 years ago (1 child) Perfect doesn't have to be the enemy of good. Signal is Good, it could be better. There is a architectural weakness. There will be some other messenger that ticks all the boxes in the future, hopefully they will take what signal has done and continue to improve it. Signal is the easy for adoption because of the phone number as identity, but its weak because of the centralization. Its currently the best option. I don't want to spend effort moving normal people to Briar or Session until its absolutely necessary, or those applications improve the onboarding experience. https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Candid_Technology_66@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) You can't send voice messages and videos or any type of file except for photos on Briar. I don't have a problem with that myself, but it uses a lot of battery power. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 3 years ago Briar is a long way from being generally useful to typical users, but i think its a gold standard example of something that is unkillable. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago SimpleX is the new thing to watch imo. Even protects your metadata while still feeling modern and compfortable permalink fedilink source parent [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 years ago Simplex chat is the only one I was able to popularize and its based in the UK permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 16 points 3 years ago (1 child) Perfect doesn't have to be the enemy of good. Signal is Good, it could be better. There is a architectural weakness. There will be some other messenger that ticks all the boxes in the future, hopefully they will take what signal has done and continue to improve it. Signal is the easy for adoption because of the phone number as identity, but its weak because of the centralization. Its currently the best option. I don't want to spend effort moving normal people to Briar or Session until its absolutely necessary, or those applications improve the onboarding experience. https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Candid_Technology_66@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) You can't send voice messages and videos or any type of file except for photos on Briar. I don't have a problem with that myself, but it uses a lot of battery power. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 3 years ago Briar is a long way from being generally useful to typical users, but i think its a gold standard example of something that is unkillable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Candid_Technology_66@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) You can't send voice messages and videos or any type of file except for photos on Briar. I don't have a problem with that myself, but it uses a lot of battery power. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 3 years ago Briar is a long way from being generally useful to typical users, but i think its a gold standard example of something that is unkillable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 3 years ago Briar is a long way from being generally useful to typical users, but i think its a gold standard example of something that is unkillable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago SimpleX is the new thing to watch imo. Even protects your metadata while still feeling modern and compfortable permalink fedilink source parent
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 years ago Simplex chat is the only one I was able to popularize and its based in the UK permalink fedilink source parent