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TextSecure | mobilecoin | |
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984 | 26 | |
24,791 | 1,147 | |
0.9% | 0.5% | |
9.9 | 9.7 | |
7 days ago | 1 day ago | |
Java | Rust | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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- WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code
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Signal: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7409
> We've discussed at length why this is not possible, but if you have more thoughts then please visit the forums. Please try not to open duplicate issues in the future, even if you feel like something is important.
I wonder why this is "not possible"
Signal has documentation on how to reproduce their Play Store builds and compare them with what you've installed locally:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...
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Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy
There's nothing on Signal blog as of yet, but Signal's git repository was tagged with v7.0.0 yesterday and we can see from the commit history since the previously tagged version (v6.74.4) that there will be a setting to hide one's phone number [1], as well as disabling the previous default behavior of advertising that one is on Signal to all their contacts already using it [2].
[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/8797236b5... (PNP stands for "Phone Number Privacy")
[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/6097e6c30...
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What are you shocked people are still doing nowadays?
Signal works the same but without the user tracking from Meta/Facebook. Many people use it as well but I'm surprised that a majority sticks to WhatsApp.
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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
Telegram and Signal solve this.
- Are Signal Notifications Encrypted ?
- Police used Cellebrite to break into my phone, how do I prevent this in the future?
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Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications -US senator
Fortunately, they did foresee this! The push notification only contains enough information to tell the phone that it should fetch the actual notification content from Signal's servers.
Here's a Signal dev talking about it on the Signal-Android GitHub: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/12961#iss...
And similarly for Signal-iOS: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/962#issuecomm...
mobilecoin
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Is this project dead?
On this day last month, v.4.1.0 of the protocol was released, enabling atomic swaps on the MobileCoin blockchain.
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There is a new payment feature in Signal (Good!) but the implementation makes me feel slightly cheated about the platform itself.
Since you're passionate about the topic, it might make sense to read a bit about why Signal chose MobileCoin as well as MobileCoin's design goals.
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Bruce Schneier: WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
This is how the Terms of Use for MobileCoin start out:
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It looks like Signal isn't as open source as you thought it was anymore
Interestingly, this brand-new custom coin they're using is not Proof-of-Work or Proof-of-Stake.
> The MobileCoin Consensus Protocol avoids the environmentally-damaging mathematical “work” required by Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus protocols like Bitcoin and realizes a much higher transaction rate than the Bitcoin consensus protocol. In contrast to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocols, practical control of governance in MCP is ceded to the users who are trusted the most by the extended MobileCoin community, rather than to the wealthiest users who control the largest financial stakes.
https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin/tree/mast...
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Help Us Test Payments in Signal
Even if an SGX attack does take place, tx's aren't recognized as the system is secured with Cryptonote's ring signatures (1st reply in FAQ https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin)
here too about 11mins in - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9afDQ_M5CU
{Today's Wired article for context: https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messa...}
Hi!
I'm the CEO of MobileCoin. If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask here. We've been working on this project for four years and it has been a labor of love. There's a lot of new technology here.
We exist in a highly regulated space so it's possible some questions will require reaching out to lawyers to make sure we answer them in a way that's compliant so please don't feel offended if a response takes a while to come back.
The best set of docs for how the whole thing fits together is our book "The Mechanics of MobileCoin"[0].
We'll be around here and on our forums [1] to answer questions. Please also check out our foundation website[2]. The github[3] is also a lot of fun, especially the section on Fog[4].
[0]https://github.com/UkoeHB/Mechanics-of-MobileCoin/blob/maste...
[1]https://community.mobilecoin.foundation
[2]https://mobilecoin.foundation
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Signal Adds Payments—With a Privacy Coin (Except they chose MobileCoin over Monero...)
From their FAQ:
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Question - MobileCoin - Private payments and messaging integration
Read the 1st question in the FAQ https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin as well as the whitepaper and youtube channel
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Signal Is Experimenting With Stellar-Based Cryptocurrency: Report
It's a forked version of the protocol. It's not interoperable, as it says right here and apparently that's outdated since they've supposedly switched to Tendermint according to OP (which would be a much better choice, if I might add).
What are some alternatives?
undiscord - Undiscord - Delete all messages in a Discord server / channel or DM (Easy and fast) Bulk delete
Signal-TLS-Proxy
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
MaterialAudiobookPlayer - Minimalistic audiobook player
Signal-Android - Patches to Signal for Android removing dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries. In branches whose names include "-FOSS". Uses new "foss" or "gms" flavor dimension: build with "./gradlew assemblePlayFossProdRelease".
TelegramAndroid - Fork client of Telegram app for Android.
LibreSignal - LibreSignal • The truly private and Google-Free messenger for Android.
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
naiveproxy - Make a fortune quietly