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With WebRTC, can someone make a ephemeral peer-to-peer, one-to-one or one-to-many messenger? I think that would be more private. Sever the 3rd party.
by Segmentation 13y ago
With WebRTC, can someone make a ephemeral peer-to-peer, one-to-one or one-to-many messenger?
I think that would be more private. Sever the 3rd party.
- eli 13y agoI'm not sure most people would grasp the difference between a company that says it doesn't keep your data and a company that says it can't keep your data.
- Segmentation 13y agoProbably not, but it could still be useful for privacy minded individuals. Especially if it was open sourced on GitHub.
- vidarh 13y agoPart of the problem here is that the privacy users care about here is not from a third party, but from whomever the recipient might otherwise choose to share the content with. And that pretty much requires a party other than the recipient whose interest it is to lock down the client as much as possible to at least increase the hassle-factor in violating the senders trust. Otherwise, if the recipient had the "EvilReplicatingToFacebook" fork of the app readily available, it'd quickly destroy any value in the app.
- zwegner 13y agoYou can't really make anything "ephemeral" with data. The closest you can get is probably a neutral third party that promises to delete the data at a future point, and locks down all endpoints where users can see the data. Of course this is still quite imperfect. With a distributed version, you'd just have to trust all the people you're sending data to to delete it.