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Thank you for writing out this comment. It's an interesting suggestion to use two chat apps at the same time: One for convenience, and the other one for safety

Thank you for writing out this comment. It's an interesting suggestion to use two chat apps at the same time: One for convenience, and the other one for safety (but at the expense of convenience).

LinuxBender 4y ago
No problem. Maybe the easiest first step would be to just set up uMurmur since it can do both voice and text and password protected channels and uses next to no ram. This may be a safer way to handle business, financial and otherwise sensitive discussions. The one downside is that there is no chat persistence so once people log out the text chat is gone. The upside is that there is no chat persistence so when your discussion is done, the data is gone and harder for malware distributors to grab anything sensitive. There is also no way for chat platforms to quietly safe voice-to-text transcriptions in the background without your knowledge since you are hosting the server. This may also be a useful fallback in the rare occasions that Discord is offline. Save sensitive data in an encrypted ledger, password manager like keypassxc or encrypted archive and of course back it up to multiple encrypted external ssd drives. Sharing of the encrypted files is best done on SFTP on your own VM or physical server. There are GUI applications for people not comfortable with the command line. One can set up a cron job to either move files to a place outside of the chroot SFTP or set them immutable with the chattr +i command or make some directories append-only so that malware and ransomware can not destroy your data. There are documents on the web for how to set up a chroot sftp-only server. but at the expense of convenience Some may complain at first, but once they realize they have a silo'd platform that has as little censorship or no censorship based on whatever rules you create, they may find it quite refreshing.

Thank you for writing out this comment. It's an interesting suggestion to use two chat apps at the same time: One for convenience, and the other one for safety (but at the expense of convenience).

LinuxBender 4y ago

No problem. Maybe the easiest first step would be to just set up uMurmur since it can do both voice and text and password protected channels and uses next to no ram. This may be a safer way to handle business, financial and otherwise sensitive discussions. The one downside is that there is no chat persistence so once people log out the text chat is gone. The upside is that there is no chat persistence so when your discussion is done, the data is gone and harder for malware distributors to grab anything sensitive. There is also no way for chat platforms to quietly safe voice-to-text transcriptions in the background without your knowledge since you are hosting the server. This may also be a useful fallback in the rare occasions that Discord is offline. Save sensitive data in an encrypted ledger, password manager like keypassxc or encrypted archive and of course back it up to multiple encrypted external ssd drives. Sharing of the encrypted files is best done on SFTP on your own VM or physical server. There are GUI applications for people not comfortable with the command line. One can set up a cron job to either move files to a place outside of the chroot SFTP or set them immutable with the chattr +i command or make some directories append-only so that malware and ransomware can not destroy your data. There are documents on the web for how to set up a chroot sftp-only server. but at the expense of convenience Some may complain at first, but once they realize they have a silo'd platform that has as little censorship or no censorship based on whatever rules you create, they may find it quite refreshing.