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This doesn't have much value without federation, which would require active support from OWS.
by ddevault 6y ago
This doesn't have much value without federation, which would require active support from OWS.
- tptacek 6y agoYou can literally just look at Matrix, the tool you recommended, to see the problem with federation, fragmentation, and market demands to support lowest-common-denominator security. It took years after your recommendation for Matrix to have universal default E2E, the table-stakes feature of a secure messenger.
- ddevault 6y agoAre you going to back this up with evidence, or is it okay when you use axiomatic arguments? "It took a while" is not actually an argument that the procedure is wrong or less correct, in case you were unsure.
- tptacek 6y agoIn fact, it is an argument that you were wrong, and the evidence for that is that when you made the argument, and for two whole years afterwards, your recommendation would have put vulnerable users on a platform that was for many users default-plaintext.