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simplex-chat
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What are your favorite End-to-End encrypted tools for online privacy?
For messaging I'm currently on Olvid (E2E with physical key exchange) but since it still use their servers, I'm currently testing SimpleX where I can host my own servers.
- Apple reveals 'push notification spying' by foreign governments
- simplex bugs/ missing features
- Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
Notice how SimpleX (https://simplex.chat/) has no push notifications by default because of this issue.
- Possible today in Signal? Disable link preview
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SMS Security and Privacy Gaps
I've been using SimpleX [0] with a couple of friends recently. It appears to work as advertised.
[0] https://simplex.chat
- SimpleX Chat v5.3.0 – Local file encryption and delivery receipts
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U.K. Abandons, for Now, Legislation That Would Have Banned End-to-End Encryption
If you have a mobile phone number, the domestic intelligence agency knows exactly where you are at all times and any LEO (without a warrant) can also find you. In addition, there have been numerous CCC presentations showing how insecure the global (excluding US) and (separately) US carriers are guilty of promiscuous metadata trafficking ($$) and insecure SS7 setups. As a consequence, for low $, you can go to any one of several shady websites and find the last location of almost any phone number (person unique ID) globally. There are additional varying exploitable vulnerabilities depending on the exact combination of {handset x carrier x country} to impersonate them, tap their line, reveal their exact location, and redirect their phone number through a third-party handset or even a PBX. These are more expensive and some capabilities are forbidden for all but a few selective intelligence uses.
Session (Signal fork) doesn't use phone numbers. It's pretty well-designed overall and uses an onion routing approach. It's already a superset of Signal except it doesn't use phone numbers. https://getsession.org
Also look interesting:
* (unproven) https://www.olvid.io/technology
* (unproven) https://simplex.chat
PS: Using regular TOR on home broadband or cloud servers is relatively risky and inefficient. Sybil attacks on it are common. And to network operators and security agencies it gives an easy "flow tag" of your uplink and exit node data traffic as automatically suspicious.
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Re: Profile Pictures
Why not open up a Feature request on https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues
berty
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How to explore writing an app for ipfs with rust?
Not written in Rust, but may be Berty can give you some ideas?
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Daily General Discussion - February 22, 2023
Berty is an open source, secure, private, censorship resilient messaging protocol. Berty is designed to work with NO internet connection. Thanks to Bluetooth LE and mDNS, messages can be securely and privately relayed, peer to peer to create an adhoc network. Of course old fashioned networks still work, and if you’re connected to a “hostile” network that’s being surveilled, the Berty protocol can still operate safely and securely thanks to e2e encryption. Super nice!
- So there's no online messaging service that's private, anonymous and secure?
- Looking for free crossplatform communication tool that can hide IPs
- Berty: Privacy-first messaging app
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Hacker News top posts: Nov 21, 2022
Berty: Privacy-first messaging app\ (34 comments)
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Berty: The privacy-first messaging app
Well, in fact they have a CLI client ( that I haven't tested ) [1] and their site says they're going to be available also for Mac, Windows and Linux.
https://github.com/berty/berty
- Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
What are some alternatives?
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
session-android - A private messenger for Android.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
Signal-Android - Fork from a private messenger for Android with extra options added: full backup and (partial, ony text) xml backup of messages. Restore can happen at any time, not only after a fresh install. Import SMS database. Import of (unencrypted) WhatsApp databases. Removed apk expire. Choose between passphrase protection and the Android screenlock. Choice for the backup location (internal or removable storage on Android < 11 (on 11 and higher this is already possible)). Set the maptype in the place picker. Option to treat view-once media as normal media. Option to ignore remote deletion. Choose between FCM or websocket notification delivery.
orbitdb - Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
termpair - View and control terminals from your browser with end-to-end encryption đź”’
ipfs-chat - Real-time P2P messenger using go-ipfs pubsub. TUI. End-to-end encrypted texting & file-sharing. NAT traversal.
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS