ContactDiscoveryService
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ContactDiscoveryService
- Is it generally ok to store phone numbers in a firestore database?
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7 Best Open-Source Alternatives To WhatsApp In 2023
[1] https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
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WhatsApp data leak: 500M user records for sale
Signal uses SGX for remote attestation, which presumably lets the client verify that the code running on the server is a build of the OSS code and not a modified version. But I don't know the details or if this is reliable.
SGX and remote attestation described here:
https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
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WhatsApp data breach sees nearly 500 million user records up for sale
Signal does private contact discovery and the effort they've gone to to do this is quite impressive.
- A brief family story about convincing boomer parents to Signal
- Elon on Signal
- Absolutely Insane "Feature"
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Types of Execution Environments, Attestation and SGX
TEEs have numerous privacy-enhancing applications that may benefit users. One of them is, as discussed earlier, private contact discovery; the Signal application uses a contact discovery service enhanced using Intel SGX, a TEE technology, to protect its users' privacy. A similar application of TEEs is performing malware analysis in a remote cloud service, so that the service may not identify users by the contents of their devices, such as the applications they have installed, especially important as 98.93% of users may be uniquely identified by the list of applications they have installed.
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Twilio Incident: What Signal Users Need to Know
Signal (or, more accurately, one of its predecessors) used to use client-side private set intersection for contact discovery, but this scales poorly [1].
Now they use a solution based on Intel SGX and server-side trusted computing [2].
[1] https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/
[2] https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
- Where are Signal servers located and how is it safer than Swiss-based Threema ?
element-ios
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Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
There are quite a few issues that they've stopped fixing in the Element app in favor of doing it in Element X, the one I've been following is where the iOS app causes a breakage in E2EE when you use the share extension, so they just disabled the share extension entirely and said they'd fix in X - https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/7618
But X requires Sliding Sync on the server, which is still a separate service to run alongside the homeserver and doesn't have a stable API, much less a spec (?). I am increasingly disappointed with how centralized Matrix is becoming, since AFAIK there isn't really an alternate client close to the same level of quality as Element.
I probably would've made all of the same decisions myself though, so I don't blame them I'm just a bit disappointed in how it's shaking out.
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Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
Element X is an entirely new client written in Rust + Swift UI/Jetpack Compose (https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-ios and https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-android) which will eventually replace the legacy Element apps (https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios and https://github.com/vector-im/element-android).
The features already exist serverside; we're just working on getting them out of beta.
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Matrix client Element's Spaces is out of beta
You're being downvoted, but I originally had the same question.
It's actually a native app. It's mostly Objective C, but increasingly written in Swift. https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios
There is clearly room for improvement, but apparently they just hired a handful of new iOS developers to work on it. Good things should be coming soon.
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Newbie here. I have multiple accounts on Elements, each one with a different username and on a different server. Is there any way to easily switch accounts without having to sign out ?
afaik, there is no "official" way to do it: https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/590
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Any intention on creating mobile apps?
Sure. Element for Android, iOS, and web
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WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash
Every issue I had with Signal, and listed here, is solved.
One issue I have with the Element iOS client is that it doesn't respect system font sizing. So, for older relatives, that app can't be used. I put my mom on something called "Fluffy Chat" though, which does respect font sizes. If Element fixes that, I'll move her back again. It's kinda nice having multiple clients to choose from, though Element is by far the most polished.
https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/3245
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Is there an IpadOS App for Beeper?
That lets me assume that they either have a restyled fork of Element, or are directly telling us to use Element.
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Signal is having technical difficulties
Here’s the iOS pull request for example: https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/pull/3890
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WhatsApp Status to convince your family & friends to switch to Signal – an educational approach (EN & DE)
There's a GitHub issue mentioning the same domain, but it doesn't suggest it's used for verification
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Slack Ongoing Connection Issues
4. While core functionality is both broken and undocumented, the maintainers announce rabbit hole features that no one asked for and seem very much like distractions, like their recently-announced microblogging view/client[4]
In short the Element maintainers have shown little interest in making the platform accessible to the people who need its differentiating features the most, and have prioritized the "mad science"/technical aspect of their platform at the expense of the human element (end-users and operators).
It'd be cool if Element used their resources to hire some UX folks and community advocates whose sole focus is addressing the horrid accessibility of their platform. I think most users would rather see that than further "mad science".
[1] https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/3762
What are some alternatives?
whatsapp-viewer - Small tool to display chats from the Android msgstore.db database (crypt12)
Ferdi - Ferdi is a free and opensource all-in-one desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps
TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.
hydrogen-web - Lightweight matrix client with legacy and mobile browser support
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS
TelegramAndroid - Fork client of Telegram app for Android.
element-android - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for Android.
simplex-chat - SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!
Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
simplexmq - ⚙️ SimpleXMQ - A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks.
mnm - mnm implements TMTP protocol. Let Internet sites message members directly, instead of unreliable, insecure email. Contributors welcome! (Server)