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I don't feel comfortable trusting a new "secure" messaging platform or interested in doing the work to dig through the sources to see if it's legit or not combined with the fact that I don't even know if the source they provide generates the same binary they distribute to many. Just use Matrix instead.
builds are reproducible
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A new environment with just a handful of apps comes every so often. In that regard, what are other apps like Briar? The premise is: > Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server - messages are synchronized directly between the users' devices. If the internet…
There's some overlap with P2P Matrix (which isn't yet done but is in the works).
Briar was built for P2P from the ground up, so presumably they planned this better.
This isn't a criticism of matrix. Matrix is great and I use it everyday but gotta give credit where its due.
I don't feel comfortable trusting a new "secure" messaging platform or interested in doing the work to dig through the sources to see if it's legit or not combined with the fact that I don't even know if the source they provide generates the same binary they distribute to many. Just use Matrix instead.
Briar is p2p/offgridy/meshnety and Matrix is federated, always on internet connected.
Or does that somehow work through the posts and forums in the app?
Never heard of Briar. Title made me think it was some new cool desktop environment for linux. It took me longer than I care to admit before I realized Briar is just a messaging app.
A new environment with just a handful of apps comes every so often. In that regard, what are other apps like Briar? The premise is: > Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server - messages are synchronized directly between the users' devices. If the internet…
It sounds similar to Scuttlebutt https://scuttlebutt.nz/
Do any of these "decentralized" and "end to end" encryption communication systems actually solve the fundamental problem which is that you have to trust the person you're communicating with to not give up the content of the messages they've sent and received. People's telegram and signal comms are always showing up in subpoenas because someone unlocks their phone for the feds. I guess what I'm thinking here is that t…
I don't feel comfortable trusting a new "secure" messaging platform or interested in doing the work to dig through the sources to see if it's legit or not combined with the fact that I don't even know if the source they provide generates the same binary they distribute to many. Just use Matrix instead.
No just don't. Matrix exposes metadata to every connected server.
It's great that the messaging works over bluetooth and local wifi, but I really wish the phone app would be able to cache and relay encrypted messages to others. Or does that somehow work through the posts and forums in the app?
Do any of these "decentralized" and "end to end" encryption communication systems actually solve the fundamental problem which is that you have to trust the person you're communicating with to not give up the content of the messages they've sent and received. People's telegram and signal comms are always showing up in subpoenas because someone unlocks their phone for the feds. I guess what I'm thinking here is that t…
Signal has a "Disappearing Messages" feature that deletes conversations contents after a set amount of time. This is the only feature that I'm aware of on these major messenger services that works to solve the concern for your conversations on the recipients devices.
Figuring out a solution for this would enable new kinds of horror, like when in 1984 Winston is shown a photo that implicates the party leader in a crime and his torturer then tosses it in the "memory hole" to burn it up. You can see evidence of something horrific but you cannot share it, cannot prove it and then it disappears.
Never heard of Briar. Title made me think it was some new cool desktop environment for linux. It took me longer than I care to admit before I realized Briar is just a messaging app.