#SocialMedia#Messaging#Telegram#Privacy#CyberSecurity: "Taking the company public would change the power structure and force greater disclosure, although Durov could maintain voting control by issuing dual class shares.
Monetising messaging apps is not easy. Users do not want adverts to pop up in their private messages. Signal relies on donations and Meta does not give profit figures for WhatsApp.
Telegram is not yet profitable. It told the FT that it makes “hundreds of millions of dollars” in annual revenue via digital ads, crypto payments and premium subscriptions. It is planning an AI-powered chatbot, but then who is not? Server costs are large. Durov described costs as less than 70 cents per user, which translates to around $630mn a year. Revenue is below that.
Selling tokens linked to its own blockchain effort could have funded the endeavour but it was shot down by regulators. However, Telegram still facilitates use of the tokens, called Toncoins, after developers took on the project. Toncoin’s price has climbed about 60 per cent in the past year. Talk of a possible IPO is proving lucrative in more ways than one."
Pakistan has sentenced a 22-year-old student to death over photos and videos he is believed to have shared over WhatsApp. The BBC has the details: https://flip.it/Z-1IVV
Signal is an encrypted messaging application that supports post-quantum cryptography.
Google Gmail is the email provider for Signal Messenger LLC, this is the company that develops the Signal messaging application and the Signal protocol.
Signal support can be contacted from within the application by going to Signal Settings (profile) > Help > Contact Us.
I published a couple of Instagram stories recently, and now that I got a foot there, my friends are starting to send me Instagram Direct messages. Yet another #messaging app…
To keep up with all the channels, I regularly use #Beeper, mainly on desktop. But I just learnt that their #Android app has been rebuilt from scratch, and it looks really neat!
If you want to try, just ask and I'll share my invite code.
At what point are the #Democrats going to start engaging in coordinated #messaging, and pushing content to combat the flood of #rightwing bullshit? The clock is ticking, and we can't afford to wait til the night before the election to suddenly realize that effort is needed to inform the voters of the facts.
Since DMs suck on here and @signalapp added usernames, is anyone just publicly sharing their Signal username? I’ve thought about doing that but am not sure. #SignalApp#messaging
The messaging app you choose impacts others as well, not just yourself, and while you personally may not require complete privacy, others in your network might have their lives depend on it.
Fascinating ... Apple joins Signal to provide the most secure end-to-end encrypted messaging protocols. Note: Apple engineers created their own “Levels” and magically theirs is the highest. ;) But regardless, this is obviously strong encryption.
"Support for PQ3 will start to roll out with the public releases of iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, and watchOS 10.4, and is already in the corresponding developer preview and beta releases.”
💬 "In March 2020 the information system for dealing with Covid was; I would wheel in a whiteboard and grab a marker and Simon Stephens would read out from scraps of paper, faxes that he'd got from the NHS…" - Dominic Cummings interviewed on Helen Lewis has Left the Chat, on BBC Sounds.
"#Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete #opensource platform for #InstantMessaging with transparent #communication to other IM systems (#ICQ, #AIM, etc). Most of the initial design and protocol work is done, as well as a working server and a few test clients."
#CyberSecurity#Privacy#Messaging#Metadata#Encryption: "When stored, aggregated and analyzed, this metadata provides ample information that could potentially incriminate someone or be submitted to authorities. When WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger enabled end-to-end encryption for messages, of course it was a welcome and widely celebrated change. But it’s important to remember that not all end-to-end encryption utilizes the same standards, some implementations are more secure than others, so it’s something that shouldn’t necessarily be accepted at face value. More importantly: collecting and storing an obscene amount of metadata should invite global scrutiny, considering this data is often combined with whatever other information companies like Meta harvest about your identity (which is a lot.)
This is one of the many reasons why we need to resist giving out our phone numbers just to access an app, especially to do something as personal and intimate as private messaging. Even though users can sometimes mask their numbers with a username, their identity on the app is still fundamentally tied to their phone number. App operators have access to this, as well as user contacts. Additionally, with a simple modification to the app's source code, the contacts may also gain access in some cases. This should raise more concerns about privacy, and it makes the need for anonymity difficult to achieve." https://simplex.chat/blog/20240416-dangers-of-metadata-in-messengers.html
#Cybersecurity#Apple#Encryption#Messaging#RCS: "On its own, the core RCS protocol is currently not any more secure than SMS. The protocol is not encrypted by default, meaning that anyone at your phone company or any law enforcement agent (ordinarily with a warrant) will be able to see the contents and metadata of your RCS messages. The RCS protocol by itself does not specify or recommend any type of end-to-end encryption. The only encryption of messages is in the incidental transport encryption that happens between your phone and a cell tower. This is the same way it works for SMS.
But what’s exciting about RCS is its native support for extensions. Google has taken advantage of this ability to implement its own plan for encryption on top of RCS using a version of the Signal protocol. As of now, this only works for users who are both using Google’s default messaging app (Google Messages), and whose phone companies support RCS messaging (the big three in the U.S. all do, as do a majority around the world)."
I'm looking for a new position/contract, preferably #remote. Timezone: CET. #GetFediHired
I'm a software #developer, architect, and team lead with almost 20 years of practical experience building and modernizing scalable and maintainable #backend systems, specializing in #dotnet and #REST APIs. Comfortable with #messaging architectures running at scale, designing CI/CD pipelines and running distributed systems in the cloud. Happy to take ownership, train teams and learn new business domains.
1-3-24 Nicole Sandler Show – Words Matter with Anat Shenker-Osorio
I'm thrilled to welcome Anat Shenker-Osorio back to the show. It's been a while -- the last time she was here was in July of 2014! Yes, she's been trying to help progressives win elections for many years and I thought this was the perfect time to have her impart some of her wisdom to our listeners.
As she explains at the st https://nicolesandler.com/1-3-24/ #NicolesBlog#AnatShenkerOsario#elections#messaging#polling