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Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.
Please do not use Telegram. It' closed source and uses some half-baked crypto. Signal is open source and is actually end-to-end encrypted.
Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.
There is a lot of hype over encrypted chat programs. Telegram's encryption is not end-to-end unless you opt into "Secret Chats"[1] and many claim their crypto is not secure[2,3] as they rolled their own[4]. The latest Google chat app Allo also backed away from defaulting to end-to-end encryption for all messages as it lessens the quality of their auto-assistant[5]. The Axolotl protocol (developed by Moxie and Trevor[…
WhatsApp is Facebook. They're basically just two applications from the same company now. Are we going to have a ruling that data can't be passed from Lync to Skype in Microsoft, or from GMail to Googles Ad network? Just because corporate policy in 2014 was they would be completely separate doesn't mean that in 2016 that is now seen as a good idea (for them). Facebook makes money off your data, it was pretty obvious t…
Sharing data is what these companies do. The only way to keep your data safe is to use open-source, e2e systems
I'm moving to signal / telegram / flavour-of month. What's that, I have no contacts on any of those services? I guess that's even more secure.
Remember that when Facebook promises something next time. I'm slowly moving communications over to Signal.
But it's so hard to try to convince non-tech people to move to another app when they are so comfortable with Whatsapp...
Something 'funny' about new Fb messenger version is that it steals your SMSs from your inbox automatically Yes, you can opt out, AFTER it read your unread SMSs
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There is a lot of hype over encrypted chat programs. Telegram's encryption is not end-to-end unless you opt into "Secret Chats"[1] and many claim their crypto is not secure[2,3] as they rolled their own[4]. The latest Google chat app Allo also backed away from defaulting to end-to-end encryption for all messages as it lessens the quality of their auto-assistant[5]. The Axolotl protocol (developed by Moxie and Trevor[…
So what's recommended then? Signal, Wire and Tox?
Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.
HN is the most open, thoughtful (and honest-but-careful) public forum I know of and I intend to do my part to keep it that way.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a lot of hype over encrypted chat programs. Telegram's encryption is not end-to-end unless you opt into "Secret Chats"[1] and many claim their crypto is not secure[2,3] as they rolled their own[4]. The latest Google chat app Allo also backed away from defaulting to end-to-end encryption for all messages as it lessens the quality of their auto-assistant[5]. The Axolotl protocol (developed by Moxie and Trevor[…
So what's recommended then? Signal, Wire and Tox?