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by contact9879 3y ago
Note that Signal only uses push notifications to wake the app up. Then it directly connects to the Signal service to receive messages.
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by contact9879 3y ago
Signal
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by contact9879 3y ago
Maybe read the papers then?
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by contact9879 3y ago
oh wow, so will E2EE apply to Instagram too? or just Messenger? Edit: nvm just read the last paragraph of the post
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by contact9879 3y ago
Android developer docs and the whitepapers linked in this post
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by contact9879 3y ago
Enabling E2EE has historically required usability tradeoffs (no multi-device, no backups, chat transcripts are stored on device only, etc). It took them this long to make it seamless.
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by contact9879 3y ago
well, first, which one? and second, somewhere in your Android or iOS keystore
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by contact9879 3y ago
The whitepapers: Messaging: https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Messen... Labyrinth E2EE storage: https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12&#x
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by contact9879 3y ago
I know the argument is somewhat moot because they're all closed source. But with WhatsApp and Apple shipping key transparency, this isn't necessarily true anymore. You can verify that the keys that were given to your contacts are
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by contact9879 3y ago
E2EE won't be disable-able
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by contact9879 3y ago
What? That's exactly what this is.
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by contact9879 3y ago
Anonymity isn't necessary. e.g. Briar isn't anonymous (you still need to trust your contacts), but it's essentially impossible for third-parties to track who is talking to who and when.
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by contact9879 3y ago
Briar gets most of the way. And Cwtch gets all the way (except maybe the pay the people working on it). Any sort of project that actively tries to minimize data collection will not be profitable. At least not in this current economic system
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by contact9879 3y ago
Usually yes, but check out their Labyrinth implementation which might mean the answer for most features is no.
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by contact9879 3y ago
I imagine somewhere in the planning stages is complying with DSA by adopting MLS and allowing interoperability between WhatsApp and FB/Insta Messenger and other services.
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Building end-to-end security for Messenger(engineering.fb.com)
289 points by contact9879 3y ago|385 comments
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by contact9879 3y ago
Apps can still do what they want in the content of the notification. This includes encrypting the content however they'd like. By default, though, apps don't encrypt the content. And the metadata (what appleID is receiving notific
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TKey Signature tool released – Tillitis(tillitis.se)
1 points by contact9879 3y ago|0 comments
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by contact9879 3y ago
after learning about how conservative Toyota is in general, their interest in hydrogen seems blown out of proportion solely because every other manufacture was so quick to move to electric. Toyota is still in the "figure out what works
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Signal availability issues on 2023-11-27(community.signalusers.org)
2 points by contact9879 3y ago|0 comments
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by contact9879 3y ago
Signal's design for usernames and phone number privacy means they won't know Also, dissidents aren't the only (and definitely not the primary) intended users for Signal
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by contact9879 3y ago
I'm honestly interested in what your solution for private communication is that will also get mass adoption among hundreds of millions of users. (And it's definitely not running your own XMPP server and getting everyone to switch
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by contact9879 3y ago
I understand that. Signal has put in a lot of work since I started using it fulltime and is much more reliable now than it was just 2-4 years ago. The only time I've had issues now is when I'm backpacking in areas with spotty conn
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by contact9879 3y ago
Because peer-to-peer messaging is not a solved issue. People want asynchronous conversations and not have to expose their location to everyone they talk to. There are other platforms that are working on federated e2ee services (it's no
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by contact9879 3y ago
The only issue I'm aware of is that The Signal Protocol is only really defined in Signal's GPL'd code. So it's almost impossible to write a clean room implementation (e.g. Wire tried and ultimately failed. they ended u
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by contact9879 3y ago
I'm always intrigued by people that have this POV. Security and privacy are not binary for fucks sake. Improvement on the status quo is great and Signal improves a hell of a lot. Not to mention that half of your comment is non-issues.
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by contact9879 3y ago
They are peer-to-peer by default between people in their contacts list. That is for when calling someone that isn't in your contacts list or for people that have enabled the relay all calls option.
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by contact9879 3y ago
It's in testing now; you'll soon have to switch to complaining about some other thing. Anyway, considering usernames required an extensive redesign of how Signal works, it's not surprising it took 5 years (3 years of full tim
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by contact9879 3y ago
They cover this pretty substantially in the post on Signal's website (I know they merged the Wired article into this one). Signal is trying to compete with the richest companies in the world; including for talent. And considering Sign
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by contact9879 3y ago
almost, usernames and phone number privacy are in testing now

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