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Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks

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Re: Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks

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post #101

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Yeah but Briar communicates over Onion routing, good luck finding that in iOS. The local communications are of course not onion routed, goes without saying. It's a whole little tookit of subversive communication, including some anonymous and some not.

You mean like this? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448

Nice, another iOS Safari skin. This surely works as well and is as secure as the official Firefox-based Tor Browser.

Re: Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks

#112
post #79

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It basically says what I would expect, but then I'm a tech-savvy privacy nerd who knows how this sort of tech works. Any particular reason you asked?

I've asked because the mac of your Bluetooth is linked to your device and therefore traceable to the user, don't you agree? and then, for what reason should I share the BT address with a remote contact that i will never see IRL?

If you won't ever see them... keep in mind you're posting in a thread titled "Briar 1.4 - Offline sharing". It's meant to be used offline and you're broadcasting your MAC address where-ever you go anyway. Doesn't mean others should track it (I had some interesting experiences with my WiFi MAC ending up in some tracking database), but it's not for a lack of ability.

Re: Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks

#113

Briar desperately needs a library for Linux and Windows that can be used to build all sort of applications. Discussion forums, group chat, IM, location-based messaging, email/mailing-list equivalents, blogs and offline websites and more. Not just one app.

Briar is actually built on a library called Bramble that can be used for offline-first p2p data syncing. There was recently a good talk by a Briar Dev going deeper into the Bramble protocol: https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2021/diving-at-xmpp/

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately that implementation can be used only from java.

Re: Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks

#114
post #75
post #45

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Yeah I get what you mean, I didn't actually mean implementing it yourself, but just going to snapdrop.net. That should doable for most people I assume.

Assuming they're already on the same wireless network.

And that the wireless network isn't doing client isolation like "free wifi" type networks do. Most of my "oh send me that video" type AirDrop interactions are in places like bars.
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