I would recommend looking at this site. My personal recommendation would be simplex chat. It’s decentralized, doesn’t require a phone number and supports forward secrecy.
» @signalapp Chefin kritisiert Karners Entwurf zu Messenger-Überwachung:
Die Regierung will Messenger-Dienste stärker überwachen. Wenn man im Datenschutz eine Tür öffnet, öffne man sie für alle, warnt @Mer__edith «
…und doch wollen mir Menschen immer wieder beibringen, dass die nichts zu verbergen haben. Eine Auswirkung von der Übernahme von deren mentalen Wahrnehmung und Privatsphäre, was ich als sehr übel empfinde.
Der Messenger #Telegram ist für eine sichere Kommunikation nicht geeignet - standardmäßig sind die Nachrichten nicht einmal Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselt. Besser geeignet sind #Signal oder #Threema. Übrigens: Elon Musk ist das Paradebeispiel eines Trolls. Einfach ignorieren. 😉
MEP @echo_pbreyer for a long time is raising awareness of the pervasive #privacy-eroding nature of this regulation, which won't have its intended effect of protecting children.
Another week, another attempt to transfer my #Signal messages to a new iPhone.
I've got 30GB of data (reason: 3 years of baby photos + videos shared with family members 😅) and the estimated transfer time is 27 HOURS.
The 2 phones (old & new) need to be near each other, touching, with the Signal app open, for the entirety of the transfer. I've failed previous transfers by doing something as simple as turning off an alarm, ugh.
So I need to use a THIRD phone while this happens. Wish me luck!
Meredith Whittaker, Präsidentin der gemeinnützigen Signal-Stiftung, die hinter dem Messenger #Signal steht, hat angekündigt, dass Signal im Falle der Umsetzung der geplanten Chatkontrollen sich aus dem Europäischen Markt zurückziehen wird.
> »Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees. This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice. It's surveillance wine in safety bottles. To be clear--we will stay to the end. We stand with the people in Europe & their right to privacy, whatever the Commission does. But we won't comply with any mandate to undermine our privacy guarantees. And noncompliance would result in our being barred from the market.«
Das würde wohl vor allem bedeuten, dass die App nicht mehr über App Stores zur Verfügung steht und theoretisch noch manuell installiert werden kann, aber letztlich wäre es wohl das Aus von Signal in Europa. (Hatte die letzten zwei Worte ursprünglich vergessen).
Without the #Signal-Messenger-App I will have big difficulties to do my work. Some sources only communicate on this channel. Cause they trust the Signal-architecture (so do I).
@saul we’re more of a facilitator for that kind of thing. Weird can help make the initial connection, but the message transmission would be left to any of a number of E2EE messengers we’d defer to (by integration), like #matrix, #signal, #Veilid, #polyproto etc.
Die Schweiz ist nicht in der EU aber in Europa und kann dies mMn gemäss @signalapp genau so deswegen betreffen.
»Überwachung statt Sicherheit – Wenn die Chatkontrolle kommt, würde Signal gehen:
Die Chefin des verschlüsselten Messengers Signal hat drastische Schritte angekündigt, sollte der Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle umgesetzt werden.«
so tired of #signal app. How can I criticize it when I’ve never used it I would like to use it. I would like to use it very much. However I don’t own a smart phone. Which means I can’t register a desktop app which intern means I can’t use signal as even trying to create a virtual I machine running, android to download the mobile app to register my desktop app. Which failed. I don’t care how much you improve it until you’re actually inclusive. Signal is not a good app. You might also want to think about who are the people they don’t have access to their own smart phone. Think about other ways for users to register without a smart phone please. (running macos desktop)
• I've actually had an easier time keeping up with Slack than in Slack itself
• Initially I ran clients side by side but Beeper updates just as fast and I've since stopped running most except for Discord which I use for calls
• Even so, it's great to run it in parallel to Discord, because it's easier to text chat in Beeper while in a video call
Signal Messenger: Unter "Einstellungen -> Daten und Speicher" könnt ihr die Medienqualität für den Versand beeinflussen. Wird die Option auf "hoch" gestellt, wird das Bild nicht so stark komprimiert, wie in der Standardeinstellung. Benötigt dann natürlich mehr Datenvolumen.
If you only read one article this year, it has to be THIS by @Mer__edith, the president of #signal :
"AI is a marketing term, not a technical term of art. [...]
This is also why it’s imperative that we recognize mass surveillance – and ultimately the surveillance business model – as the root of the large-scale tech we’re currently calling “AI”."
#WhatsApp uses the open-source #Signal protocol… However, encryption isn’t the whole story… WhatsApp and, by extension, all #Meta organizations know you sent something, when you sent it, and who you sent it to…
Deren Ausreden sind einfach nur plump und frech oder wissen die es wirklich nicht besser?!?? Nun ja, bis die mal selber deswegen betroffen sein werden…
»Verschlüsselung: Polizei will in Echtzeit an Datenströme von WhatsApp & Co.
Eine Informationsfreiheitsanfrage eröffnet Einblicke in die Arbeit der europäischen "Going Dark"-Expertengruppe, die das "Verschlüsselungsproblem" knacken soll.«
> On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat.
Because it costs so much money to create and run AI models, tech companies will inevitably try to pay for them by selling our personal information, says Signal’s CEO #signal#ai#privacy
What's the best messaging platform?
Cross-posted from : lemmy.ml/post/16566616...