▲ 164 ▼ Signal Piracy group (signal.group) submitted 2 years ago by blicante@moist.catsweat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 comments fedilink hide all child comments I saw some threads here about Telegram and piracy stuff being banned. So, as an experimental alternative, I created a public Signal group for piracy. Maybe it'll be useful? Before joining Signal supports usernames and hiding telephone numbers. Here's a blog entry on how to do so. You might want to: set a username change your profile name (these are two separate things!) hide your phone number
[–] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) Sure they don't log the IPs, but it is technically impossible to not know the IP when you're running a centralized service. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] lol@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago I wrote a comment here about why sealed sender does not achieve what it purports to. permalink fedilink source parent [–] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago I didn't know that. Thanks permalink fedilink source parent [–] blicante@moist.catsweat.com [S] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children) What are the "popular" alternatives? Telegram stores everything, WhatsApp doesn't allow usernames, Matrix requires IPs too... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) You are welcome to audit the source code and host the backend yourself. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) You understand that, for everyone except for a complete network pro, that is worse for security and privacy, right? Don't get me wrong, it's great that you can. But the reason piracy websites struggle so much with long term stability isn't because they're hosting the wrong software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* If you don't put trust on someone something, you left yourself to trust and do all the works. However, you don't trust yourself either, sadly I can't offer any solutions. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago TBH I would just use email over TOR and encrypt communication with PGP. Rotate identities every now and then and you should be fine. Yes it doesn't have forward secrecy but it removes the effort to find the "right messaging" service and is instead ubiquitous (and you can sign up for anonymous email addresses online too, which makes it even better). permalink fedilink source parent [–] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago Session? permalink fedilink source parent
[+] lol@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago I wrote a comment here about why sealed sender does not achieve what it purports to. permalink fedilink source parent [–] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago I didn't know that. Thanks permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago I wrote a comment here about why sealed sender does not achieve what it purports to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago I didn't know that. Thanks permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blicante@moist.catsweat.com [S] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children) What are the "popular" alternatives? Telegram stores everything, WhatsApp doesn't allow usernames, Matrix requires IPs too... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) You are welcome to audit the source code and host the backend yourself. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) You understand that, for everyone except for a complete network pro, that is worse for security and privacy, right? Don't get me wrong, it's great that you can. But the reason piracy websites struggle so much with long term stability isn't because they're hosting the wrong software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* If you don't put trust on someone something, you left yourself to trust and do all the works. However, you don't trust yourself either, sadly I can't offer any solutions. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago TBH I would just use email over TOR and encrypt communication with PGP. Rotate identities every now and then and you should be fine. Yes it doesn't have forward secrecy but it removes the effort to find the "right messaging" service and is instead ubiquitous (and you can sign up for anonymous email addresses online too, which makes it even better). permalink fedilink source parent [–] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago Session? permalink fedilink source parent
[+] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) You are welcome to audit the source code and host the backend yourself. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) You understand that, for everyone except for a complete network pro, that is worse for security and privacy, right? Don't get me wrong, it's great that you can. But the reason piracy websites struggle so much with long term stability isn't because they're hosting the wrong software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* If you don't put trust on someone something, you left yourself to trust and do all the works. However, you don't trust yourself either, sadly I can't offer any solutions. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) You are welcome to audit the source code and host the backend yourself. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) You understand that, for everyone except for a complete network pro, that is worse for security and privacy, right? Don't get me wrong, it's great that you can. But the reason piracy websites struggle so much with long term stability isn't because they're hosting the wrong software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* If you don't put trust on someone something, you left yourself to trust and do all the works. However, you don't trust yourself either, sadly I can't offer any solutions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) You are welcome to audit the source code and host the backend yourself. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) You understand that, for everyone except for a complete network pro, that is worse for security and privacy, right? Don't get me wrong, it's great that you can. But the reason piracy websites struggle so much with long term stability isn't because they're hosting the wrong software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* If you don't put trust on someone something, you left yourself to trust and do all the works. However, you don't trust yourself either, sadly I can't offer any solutions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) You understand that, for everyone except for a complete network pro, that is worse for security and privacy, right? Don't get me wrong, it's great that you can. But the reason piracy websites struggle so much with long term stability isn't because they're hosting the wrong software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* If you don't put trust on someone something, you left yourself to trust and do all the works. However, you don't trust yourself either, sadly I can't offer any solutions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* If you don't put trust on someone something, you left yourself to trust and do all the works. However, you don't trust yourself either, sadly I can't offer any solutions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago TBH I would just use email over TOR and encrypt communication with PGP. Rotate identities every now and then and you should be fine. Yes it doesn't have forward secrecy but it removes the effort to find the "right messaging" service and is instead ubiquitous (and you can sign up for anonymous email addresses online too, which makes it even better). permalink fedilink source parent