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Wonder what people here think of signal. I find it more user friendly than matrix. Any info about it's security vs matrix?
What about Briar? https://briarproject.org/ Seems like it's decentralized and uses Tor natively.
Wonder what people here think of signal. I find it more user friendly than matrix. Any info about it's security vs matrix?
My issue with Matrix is the philsophy attached to it. The founders and its most vitriolic supports are activists, through and through, and view Signal as a messaging app for activists. When the Cellebrite malware was added to Signal by the developer(s) I mentioned that Cellebrite was used by legitimate phone carriers to transfer data between an old phone and a new phone. I asked why my elderly mother, with whom I spe…
Did you mean to say Signal here instead of Matrix?
I'm amazed at how much PR matrix gets for an opensource project not supported by any company. Congratulations to all supporters
Wonder what people here think of signal. I find it more user friendly than matrix. Any info about it's security vs matrix?
What about Briar? https://briarproject.org/ Seems like it's decentralized and uses Tor natively.
However, in reading the article, they discussed group communication functions in Matrix, which were absent from Briar for awhile.
They also mention that Matrix is planing on introducing mesh networking, which is very similar to Briar. I found this extremely interesting. It seems like Briar and Matrix are sort of coming full circle to each other. I'd love to see either or both take off.
I'm amazed at how much PR matrix gets for an opensource project not supported by any company. Congratulations to all supporters
Wonder what people here think of signal. I find it more user friendly than matrix. Any info about it's security vs matrix?
It is useful for talking to people you know in real life, but that's it.
As to the user friendliness, I find more infuriating bugs (and "features") with signal these days, although that was not always the case. For example, if history is not restored on launch it is lost forever, this is a problem if you're e.g. going to a privacy hostile nation and need your history clean for the trio but want to restore it when you get back. Another particularly heinous violation is that the signal app has code in it that slows it's functionality if the version is out of date, pressuring you to update.
Top secret communications by people that register at matrix.org that uses Google`s recaptcha that collect their IPs? Strange, as Google and privacy have nothing in common.
Wonder what people here think of signal. I find it more user friendly than matrix. Any info about it's security vs matrix?
Signal is Moxie and I personally don't trust Moxie and have some issues with his attitude. Does this make signal unsafe, no of course not but I don't trust it even if the encryption is top notch. Also remember you must have a phone number to use signal.
Top secret communications by people that register at matrix.org that uses Google`s recaptcha that collect their IPs? Strange, as Google and privacy have nothing in common.