Once the connection is made, you can also share any public forum to Briar Forums, and it will automatically add it to the page (updates once every hour)
Es curioso como cambian las cosas. Si bien en 2021 salía un documento, presuntamente del FBI, poniendo a #Telegram por encima de #Signal y #Threema en cuestión de privacidad porque la compañía siempre se niega a colaborar con las autoridades y porque por mucho que se teorice sobre sus debilidades no han llegado a hackearlo, lo que sí hackearon los rusos fueron smartphones específicos, probablemente con algun malware como Pegasus (o infiltrándose en chats grupales), para acceder a conversaciones.
Hmmm... did anyone ever think about making a sort of local bulletin board system with a small computer/old phone/sbc? The machine provides a wifi hot spot, but when logged on people only have access to a single local website where they can post messages to one another.
One could even have messages carried between multiple of these systems #sneakernet style. Kind of an alternet.
Wouldn't it be possible to restore communications in #Gaza using a mesh network (Bluetooth, WiFi...)? Gaza is very dense, it should technically work, and with devices on the other side of the borders (Israel, Egypt) connected to the internet, it should even be possible to get data out and in from the internet to this local network. Does anyone know if such an app exists? If it doesn't already exist, who would be willing to put together a team to code it?
@dunglas #Briar if you want just a messaging application (by wifi and or bluetooth) usable by anyone #GNUNet if you want a complete network layer but hard to set up
@cjgyt@LALegault Aside from Signal, there are a number of other free/libre/opensource apps for texting & chat like #Tox, #Wire and #Briar All of them have a much smaller user base.
We can't exchange encrypted mail with people outside Proton - it just sends a link whose password you then need to share through a secure platform like #Matrix, #Briar, #Session, #SimpleX or #Signal. Then why not just send the message on that secure platform in the first place?
Encryption for some is a lost cause.
Encryption for all or it's just another walled garden.
A dire il vero non uso nemmeno il sistema di Chat aziendale. Ritengo sia più facile comunicare con sistemi che disperdono le informazioni più facilmente #telegram#signal
I've seen you mention before how Signal and Telegram are better than some of the more commonly used messengers.
What are your thoughts on Briar and SimpleX Chat? From what I've been able to find on them, they seem good, but you seem like the person to ask about them.
I am not comfortable that signal depends proprietary google library. However, I find that Molly lags significantly behind signal (around 1 to 2 weeks, so maybe not as significant as I thought), but I am just concerned that if there is a security fix in signal, molly will not be able to react as fast....
"Criminals have used telephones and mobile phones since they were invented. Drug smugglers use airplanes and boats, radios and satellite phones. Society survives all of this because the good uses of infrastructure far outweigh the bad uses, even though the good uses are – by and large – small and pedestrian and the bad uses are rare and spectacular."
Free Software Community of India (#FSCI) statement on banning of apps like @element and @briar
"Federated, peer-to-peer, encrypted, Free Software apps/software like #Element and #Briar, should be promoted. They are key to our national security as they provide means to enable sovereign, private and secure communication to citizens of India. Element has been embraced by Governments of France, Germany and Sweden which should be an example for #India."
Molly v.s. Signal
I am not comfortable that signal depends proprietary google library. However, I find that Molly lags significantly behind signal (around 1 to 2 weeks, so maybe not as significant as I thought), but I am just concerned that if there is a security fix in signal, molly will not be able to react as fast....