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Re: Signal Foundation
#62Moxie is and will continue to go down as a legend of the digital age. He carved his spot way back with work like sslsniff/sslstrip, and has proven himself to be a real philanthropist. Kudos to him.
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Re: Signal Foundation
#63This is freakin' awesome: A non-profit foundation with $50 million in the bank dedicated to providing usable encryption to the general public, with no other agenda other than the public good. Go read the blog post by Moxie and Brian Acton (who is joining Signal). Very exciting!
They are also dozens of other Actons and companies that can write a $50 mil check if needed. NSA might be in trouble
Re: Signal Foundation
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems like they have a lot of overlapping goals with Keybase.io. I wonder if they're in contact or work with each other.
Isn't keybase a for-profit startup leveraging advances in cryptography to build yet another social network?
Keybase is not really a social network. It feels much more like a sort PKI with a Slack client on top of it. The focus seems very much on Teams.
However they could go into more of a social network direction, the features are basically there.
Re: Signal Foundation
#65Pretty amazing and absolutely deserved. After the failures of systems like PGP, which aren't really suitable for the masses, the Signal protocol did a great job at spreading end-to-end encryption. I'm happy to hear that they got some philanthropic funding, even though I don't doubt that Moxie and the others did the work out of principle anyway and might have continued to do so even without the money.
Re: Signal Foundation
#66Any reason Signal isn't available through F-Droid? It may be unjustified but I'm not a big fan of installing privacy conscious apps through Play. Edit: Wait, haven't installed anything yet, but I read the getting started guide. I have to sign up using a phone number? That throws all expectation of anonymity and thus privacy out the window.
Telegram is available on F-Droid. It's similar to Signal with more functionality and greater ease of use - https://f-droid.org/packages/org.telegram.messenger/ You need a phone number that can receive texts for the initial setup, but once you're set up people can add you by @username and never need your number. Stuff like https://www.textnow.com/downloads works just fine for the initial text. Once you have a single d…
No, he said the crypto was weird (which it is. Who the eff uses IGE mode?) and that their competition to find vulnerabilities was bullshit and would be secure even using crypto primitives that are known to be weak.
Re: Signal Foundation
#67Anytime I hear about signal, I try to sign up and my verification code never comes. It may be something this simple that is holding it back from adoption.
Report here please: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6027
Re: Signal Foundation
#68Any reason Signal isn't available through F-Droid? It may be unjustified but I'm not a big fan of installing privacy conscious apps through Play. Edit: Wait, haven't installed anything yet, but I read the getting started guide. I have to sign up using a phone number? That throws all expectation of anonymity and thus privacy out the window.
> I have to sign up using a phone number?
Use a voip phone number if you want, you only need it to get started.
Re: Signal Foundation
#69Any reason Signal isn't available through F-Droid? It may be unjustified but I'm not a big fan of installing privacy conscious apps through Play. Edit: Wait, haven't installed anything yet, but I read the getting started guide. I have to sign up using a phone number? That throws all expectation of anonymity and thus privacy out the window.
The phone number is the contact discovery mechanism on Signal. If you don’t want that, you don’t want Signal.
Re: Signal Foundation
#70Any reason Signal isn't available through F-Droid? It may be unjustified but I'm not a big fan of installing privacy conscious apps through Play. Edit: Wait, haven't installed anything yet, but I read the getting started guide. I have to sign up using a phone number? That throws all expectation of anonymity and thus privacy out the window.
The swiss messenger Threema can be used fully pseudonymously, but is paid (Bitcoin available) and not open source: https://threema.ch/en