> 2023-05-05: Converso asks: "May we know what you do and where you are located? Thank you."
What are you, a cop?
Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
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#22You are doing God's work, sir.
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#23> 2023-05-05: Converso asks: "May we know what you do and where you are located? Thank you." What are you, a cop?
"Can we sue you, or are you subject to prosecution under the CFAA? Thanks."
Re: Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
#24There is software that lives up to these claims, it's Tinfoil Chat. The article is correct about the necessary trade-offs: due to peer to peer transport (onion hidden service 2 onion hidden service) both ends of the conversation have to be online -- it at least spools the message waiting for the recipient to appear. For hole punching and signaling that has to be done by third party, well, the third party is TOR TFC t…
The problem with these tools is that they're extremely complicated to set up and use. Grandma wants a phone number, not a v3 Tor Onion Service address. I'm interested in usable E2EE messaging apps -- that's what I compared Converso to. Whatever this is (I will read the docs some day) is in another realm.
Definitely - adding contacts in TFC is an unreasonable burden, cannot copy paste addresses into the source machine, 56-character tor addresses have to be typed in manually, followed by the recipients' public key.
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#25My goodness what are they even planning to patent? Seald SDK? Ract native? Firestone? RSA? The app does nothing, LOL.
If memory serves, I was once told by an IP lawyer that during the time period when you have a patent pending (regardless of merit) some unscrupulous types then leverage that face to juice their valuation to potential investors.
Ooooh makes sense.
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#27You should use conversations. I guess it's best and open-source also. Now getting some major overhaul
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#28This was an article about the app [0].
"Man Creates Messaging App FBI Can't Crack and Anyone Can Download, Stopped at Airport Days Later"
I would just use SimpleX tbh [1]
[0]https://www.westernjournal.com/man-creates-messaging-app-fbi...
Re: Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
#29This was an article about the app [0]. "Man Creates Messaging App FBI Can't Crack and Anyone Can Download, Stopped at Airport Days Later" I would just use SimpleX tbh [1] [0] https://www.westernjournal.com/man-creates-messaging-app-fbi... [1] https://simplex.chat
First link:
> This article was sponsored by Converso.
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#30This is so embarrassing. How can they even attempt to exist after this?
This big question — who is paying to develop this terrible app and why? Do they know it’s terrible?