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Someone is going to write a book about how backwards and stupid person to person communications were from the year 1990 to the year 2020 at the earliest. We ha
by zanny 11y ago
Someone is going to write a book about how backwards and stupid person to person communications were from the year 1990 to the year 2020 at the earliest.
We have all these proprietary awful protocols meant to lock you into an app or a platform, and threw away standards years ago. We "trust" proprietary services with security while ignoring the existence of decades old proven open secure communications like OTR, mainly because the proprietary vendors want to shove their crap down everyones throat to be able to read all their communications, or in telegrams case profit off buzzword security rather than real security. And the joke is it is working fantastically. Someone wrote a non-fiction novel on doublethink and were the setting.
- Canada 11y ago> proven open secure communications like OTR Axolotl has significant advantages over OTR, such as forward secrecy and deniability while operating in an asynchronous context. It is necessary that the global standard for secure messaging be decided by rough consensus and running code and not by standards committee.