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Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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How could you access end-to-end encrypted cloud storage from multiple devices? It's still encrypted, and in multiple jurisdictions so a legal order in any single jurisdiction only decrypts one layer of encryption. "Telegram is a cloud service. We store messages, photos, videos and documents from your cloud chats on our servers so that you can access your data from any of your devices anytime without having to rely on…

> How could you access end-to-end encrypted cloud storage from multiple devices? By sharing your key between the devices. > a legal order in any single jurisdiction only decrypts one layer of encryption That's good to know, but it's not the cutting edge of security. (For many people it's of course enough) > They also offer end-to-end encrypted secret chats Not on desktop and not on GNU/Linux phones (which I use).

> By sharing your key between the devices.

That would be a nice feature.

> but it's not the cutting edge of security.

That's true.

> Not on desktop and not on GNU/Linux phones (which I use).

That's unfortunate, but luckily the clients are open source, and anybody can create a new client for the platform of their choice. Telegram even provides a cross-platform API library: https://core.telegram.org/tdlib

` TDLib can be used on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, WebAssembly, FreeBSD, Windows Phone, watchOS, tvOS, Tizen, Cygwin. It should also work on other *nix systems with or without minimal effort. `

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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this is 100% the thing apple does that google absolutely refuses to de-intermediate themselves out of. apple allows direct bluetooth discovery, google 100% insists on closed proprietary "android nearby" systems to find local devices. neither release protocols or standards to interoperate on.

Why can't I Airdrop from my phone to my MacMini thats connected via ethernet cable. They are on the same network, and verified with other tools, but AirDrop has to be done over wifi for what reason?

this is an anti argument to me. you should be able to, over bluetooth. or maybe mdns, in some slightly better fantasy world. but this question distracts, picks foibled with airdrop, when a far greater scope question of why no one anywhere has low-intermediation direct device-to-device discovery. I don't care that Apple's implementation isnt perfect, doesn't work for xyz use case. no one else has any airdrop like basis at all. and there are no protocols or standards out there that begin to address this fault. everyone else is on square 0. terrible.

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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I'm the developer of Snapdrop. Thanks for sharing this. Merry Christmas from Germany!

Hi, this does not work for me between W10 and android. How can I go about debugging this? Both names appear on both screens, but no files seem to transfer. I tried web & app on android, no difference. Thanks!

Could you share the console output please?

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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It is a shame AirDrop is not an standard across all devices. It's almost 2021 and we don't have a universal way to share files in original format. Most ways to transfer between android/iphone/mac/pc are over the internet and compressed. I guess the industry is not interested in collaboration.

Same with screensharing, miracast/airplay/chromecast there is no universal solution for a simple problem.

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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copypasting from a similar discussion: See https://file.pizza for a similar file sharing service, but over BitTorrent over WebRTC (not sure if it requires a relay TURN server when peers are behind symmetric NAT) [1][2]. Other such services shared on news.yc previously: https://drop.lol , https://lbry.com , https://webwormhole.io et al [3][4][5]. Just a reminder that, WebRTC doesn't leak your public-IP if you're behin…

Also sharedrop.io
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