In an authoritarian regime with large masses of human and technological resources determined to have control over its population, nothing is really secure. Sending a message that can't be read by a third party? You're suspect. Have an illegal app installed on your registered "report to big brother" phone? Expect an unfriendly visit by big brother police. Don't have a "big brother" phone? There are various ways of sni…
Looks like this app uses TOR in long-range communication.
Although it's annonymous, your connection to the network is detectable and would trigger redflags in government monitoring software...
In an authoritarian regime with large masses of human and technological resources determined to have control over its population, nothing is really secure. Sending a message that can't be read by a third party? You're suspect. Have an illegal app installed on your registered "report to big brother" phone? Expect an unfriendly visit by big brother police. Don't have a "big brother" phone? There are various ways of sni…
I've pondered the merits of someone spreading a virus that just sends (small, but relatively constant and random) amounts of encrypted data (maybe to other infected devices, and various other endpoints). Spread it widely enough and everyone gets to communicate privately with plausible deniability.
Of course it doesn't even need to be real data, random gibberish would work too.
Oh indeed it is. I spent years reading apple reports and my conclusion was that they want the data for themselves so they can sell it. Devices don't make much profit when you factor in how much is spent buying up almost all old devices that hit the market.
Do you have any evidence of Apple selling user data?
Oh indeed it is. I spent years reading apple reports and my conclusion was that they want the data for themselves so they can sell it. Devices don't make much profit when you factor in how much is spent buying up almost all old devices that hit the market.
How much does Apple spend buying up old devices?
My impression was that Apple did trade ins to acquire stock to refurbish and resell in India, and to incentivize users to upgrade.
I would be pretty surprised to learn they were losing money on trade ins, and I've never heard of any kind of direct buy back.
Now that I think about it, why aren't most messaging apps peer to peer? Shouldn't that be the standard? I mean it's literally the point of messages: sending from one person to another.
Because: a) Often the intended recipient isn't online when the message is sent, and it may happen that there is never a time when both sender and recipient are online simultaneously (e.g. sender's device only turns on to send the occasional message, receiver's device is usually off but turns on occasionally to check if there are messages) b) Often one or both devices can only connect to, but can't be connected to (be…
Criminal conspiracy as a service. I don’t think I’d invest my money. Edit: to clarify their marketing is transparently targeting organizers of street violence. I have no problem with encryption and don’t think government forbidding it is a good idea.
You're going to need to be more specific. People are downvoting you because it's not really clear what you're talking about, and I'm getting serious alt-right conspiracy vibes.
In an authoritarian regime with large masses of human and technological resources determined to have control over its population, nothing is really secure. Sending a message that can't be read by a third party? You're suspect. Have an illegal app installed on your registered "report to big brother" phone? Expect an unfriendly visit by big brother police. Don't have a "big brother" phone? There are various ways of sni…
I've pondered the merits of someone spreading a virus that just sends (small, but relatively constant and random) amounts of encrypted data (maybe to other infected devices, and various other endpoints). Spread it widely enough and everyone gets to communicate privately with plausible deniability. Of course it doesn't even need to be real data, random gibberish would work too.
Perhaps. Back in the 80's, folks on Usenet would add words like "nuclear", "bomb", "spy", "communist" to their email footers and posting signatures, in hopes of overloading the (suspected/expected) NSA monitoring of traffic. I'm going to guess that sophisticated filters dealt effectively with such things back then, and even more sophisticated filters would deal with your random encrypted bits too.
Oh indeed it is. I spent years reading apple reports and my conclusion was that they want the data for themselves so they can sell it. Devices don't make much profit when you factor in how much is spent buying up almost all old devices that hit the market.
Do you have any evidence of Apple selling user data?
They obviously sell user data in aggregate - not at a personal level, but which of the big tech companies sell personal data (maybe FB / Cambridge Analytica?)
Also, Apple has Google as the default search engine which Google pays billions for. Is that selling your personal data?
Criminal conspiracy as a service. I don’t think I’d invest my money. Edit: to clarify their marketing is transparently targeting organizers of street violence. I have no problem with encryption and don’t think government forbidding it is a good idea.
You're going to need to be more specific. People are downvoting you because it's not really clear what you're talking about, and I'm getting serious alt-right conspiracy vibes.
I can assure you that you cannot in fact read minds and any "vibes" you are experiencing are autogenerated.
Also, please remember "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading"[1].
I've been looking for secure messengers during the last few weeks. I use WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. Telegram isn't very secure, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook and even Signal - while very secure - requires a cell phone number... Briar seems great in this regard but isn't available on iPhone and has no support for images, calls, voice messages, etc. Apparently they're going to support images and a desktop client,…
I'm a big fan of Keybase https://keybase.io/. The team was acquired by Zoom, but there's a new website and development is still going on.