ssh-p2p VS TextSecure

For remote access through two NATs, ssh-p2p looks interesting, and then you could use SSH tunelling of VNC. https://github.com/nobonobo/ssh-p2p You can ALMOST install it with a simple command go get -u github.com/nobonobo/ssh-p2p Except that go packages don't install for all users and sudo go get also breaks the user specific ~/go/ subdirctory so it won't work without sudo and your package is still not system wide. GOPATH could be set, first and directories created, etc. but this is too many steps for over the phone. But it may work in a pinch without go path and if it doesn't work without sudo you can try it again with sudo and you can clean up the mess once you get in. And you may be able to predeploy it to the machines. You may have to run ~/go/bin/ssh-p2p if ~/go/bin isn't in path. On windoze, you also need to install ssh which requires some oddball options to chocolatey or you won't actually get the server. Not bad if predeployed but problematic if over the phone. You might also need to install go and add it to the path. And the keys are a full length 36 character UUID which you need to convey over a telephone To make a system permanently accessible, it looks like you would need to add go-ssh to the startup scripts. There is no obvvious way to specify a TURN server if you need one. And it doesn't work with android unless you have linux on top, with GUI if you want to tunnel VNC. But if you want to do it over the telephone you need to do all this on the user's end (on linux,a bit different on windows).

Try https://github.com/nobonobo/ssh-p2p

Moxie's reasons for disallowing Signal distribution via F-droid always rang a little flat to me ( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127 ). Lots of chatter about the supposedly superior security model of Google Play Store, and as a result fewer eyes independently building and testing the Signal code base. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but independent and reproducible builds seem like a net positive for everyone. Always struggled to understand releasing code as open source without taking advantage of the community's willingness to build and test. Looking at it in a new light after the XZ backdoor, and Jia Tan's interactions with other FOSS folk.

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...

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...

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.

Telegram and Signal solve this.

Sadly yes: Looks like an open issue 13290 for Signal, sounds like they were/are indeed still interacting through google's push notification service, wat, and per a link at that issue it was a chore for Tutanota to break away once they realised it was a problem some years ago (though at least they thought about it years ago? wtf Signal...)

Here is one: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...

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