Silence
LibreSignal
Silence | LibreSignal | |
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15 | 49 | |
1,110 | 258 | |
0.2% | 0.8% | |
10.0 | 0.0 | |
about 3 years ago | about 7 years ago | |
Java | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Silence
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Silence alternative or updated versions (supporting arm64)
I would like to use Silence to encrypt my SMS, but the app isn't updated and doesn't support arm64 (I have a Pixel 7).
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Why do people still use facebook even after the billions of dollars in fines?
LOL, I had in mind a more E2E sms solution. I saw this in Fdroid but have not experimented with it. but it might be the low bar my contacts can accept to stay in touch with me
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what are the alternatives for encrypted sms now?
Maybe https://silence.im/ ? But the latest release was 4 years ago
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Vonage Help!
My first answer was https://silence.im/. However it seems to be semi abandoned and unmaintained.
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Signal alternative?
I have yet to find anything roughly compatable that also seems to be in active development. Slience looks like it but doesnt seem to be really active at all.
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Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts
They are certainly able to do so.
The only tool that I know of that can encrypt SMS messages is Silence. The source code is quite stale.
https://silence.im
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Signal replacement app for SMS on Android?
This will not help unless everyone has silence.im installed. And in that case, why not just ask them to add signal and skip a step?
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Re-Adding SMS Support to Signal
There's also Silence, which is a fork of Signal from back when it used to be TextSecure. It only does SMS.
https://silence.im/
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Are there any messaging apps that don't need Sim
Yes it is. It is also abandoned, last update was 3.5 years ago and it looks like their site has an expired cert. Rip TextSecure
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SIM Registration = More government surveillance
From their website:
LibreSignal
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Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android
>what does this mean?
Moxie (Signal's founder) has thrown fits in the past over the existence of third-party clients using their servers: https://github.com/libresignal/libresignal/issues/37#issueco...
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Signal: The Pqxdh Key Agreement Protocol
0: https://github.com/libresignal/libresignal/issues/37
I push back when anyone recommends Signal because they are fundamentally not an open network.
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Hosting Signal frontend on a local server (Like Signal desktop but through website)
OWS has historically been hostile to third party implementations outside of their clients. There are multiple unofficial options but the only one I've been looking at is the bridge with matrix, though setting up a matrix server just for this is likely overkill.
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After High Court Ruling, Telegram Discloses Names/Numbers/IP of Users
I have to say that I find him fascinating too, but there are a few things that raise my suspicion, but of course do not convict him of anything:
The way he is attacking this alternative Signal client and rules out interoperability:
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
Signal was a word before he decided to turn it into a brand.
The signal server source code repo was not updated for a year. Communication intransparent.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa...
I am not even against crypto integration, but I found the choice of MobileCoin odd. Instead of integrating an existing privacy coin or working with the community, he decided to integrate MOB and to be one of their "advisors":
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/24/mobilecoin-moxie-marlinspi...
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/mobilecoin
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Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap
Is that so surprising? Signal had always a hostile attitude to alternative clients. They have this weird disconnect of the new CEO saying they want to be available to as many people as possible and be a fully commited FOSS app, and then have no version on F-Droid (while Telegram has!) and actively fight alternative clients (see https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...)
Because of this hostility Signal is not a trustworthy organization at all.
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Signal discontinuing SMS support.
LibreSignal existed before Moxie was like “no, don’t”: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal
- Combattez la censure Iranienne en hébergeant un proxy Signal
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Nokia 1680 phone gets new PCB, runs mainline Linux
They have shut down third party clients, and resve the roght to continue that.
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
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Office 365 implementing AI to detect employees colluding, leaving and more
1) You need to audit that code, which.. everyone will have to do.
2) https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
> the Signal Android codebase includes some native shared libraries that we employ for voice calls (WebRTC, etc). At the time this native code was added, there was no Gradle NDK support yet, so the shared libraries aren’t compiled with the project build.
a good answer in my opinion, but it means what you run from the play store is not reproducible and thus can never really be confirmed to be what the sources actually include. There are also binary blobs needed for interacting with Google Play.
3) Signal is openly hostile to third party client implementations: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37
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Axolotl: First cross-plattform Signal client
Moxie Marlinspike on May 5th 2016:
> I'm not OK with LibreSignal using our servers, and I'm not OK with LibreSignal using the name "Signal." You're free to use our source code for whatever you would like under the terms of the license, but you're not entitled to use our name or the service that we run.
> If you think running servers is difficult and expensive (you're right), ask yourself why you feel entitled for us to run them for your product.
Moxie Marlinspike left Signal this January[2] 2022.
Whose to say whether there will be any change, but it's been interesting seeing Signal as a somewhat defended property. Although various third party clients/tools/libraries do exist already.
The claim that running servers is expensive would have been more interesting, imo, had there been any viable way to run your own. But for a long while Signal server source code wasn't being updated at all.
[1] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
[2] https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/
What are some alternatives?
Partisan-SMS - Encrypted SMS messenger for Android
mollyim-android - Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.
phosh-antispam
TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.
cifs-documents-provider - CIFS Documents Provider
signal-cli - signal-cli provides an unofficial commandline, JSON-RPC and dbus interface for the Signal messenger.
ad-silence - Mute Ad/promotions from Accuradio, Spotify, Soundcloud, TIDAL & Pandora Android. Minimal, extensible & lightweight under 150kb.
calyxos-fdroid-repo
anonaddy-android
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".
termux-gui - A plugin for Termux to use native Android GUI components from CLI applications. [Moved to: https://github.com/termux/termux-gui]
Signal-iOS - A private messenger for iOS.