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by dbrgn 8y ago
As already mentioned in another comment, since December there's a new cross-platform server based backup that will allow you to transfer your ID, settings, contacts and groups to other devices: https://threema.ch/en&#x2
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by dbrgn 8y ago
I can't give you any official answer (I'm here privately and don't speak for the company), but the terms of use of Threema don't disallow reverse engineering. As long as third party clients don't actively undermine
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by dbrgn 8y ago
If convenience is more important than privacy, then by all means, use WhatsApp! It backs up your data unencrypted to the Google cloud. Or use Telegram. It backs up your conversations to Telegram servers, where Telegram can read them. Conven
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by dbrgn 8y ago
The startup scene in Switzerland is quite different from silicon valley. There are still a lot of "classic small company" startups that start with a business idea, try to become self-financed as soon as possible and then slowly bu
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Since they haven't come up yet, and since the website obviously contains primarily marketing content, here are a few relevant links that might be of interest to the HN crowd: - Cryptography whitepaper: https://threema.ch&#x2
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by dbrgn 8y ago
You can buy as many (distributable) licenses as you want in the Threema shop and will get a self-updating APK download: https://shop.threema.ch Unfortunately only for Android, because Apple doesn't really like it of you cir
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Already in beta, will probably be released in the coming days.
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Paid apps indicate a more sustainable business model than venture capital. As developer, you are only obliged to your customers, which in this case are the users, not the investors. Threema has no external investors.
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Even under the revised BÜPF, the government has no power to ask for backdoors. They can only ask for data that is already stored (which is very little metadata in the case of Threema, since collecting as little data as technically possible
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Since December there's a new cross-platform server based backup: https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/threema-safe-en The design is documented in the crypto whitepaper: https://threema.ch/pre
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Threema puts more focus on business customers than in the past (as it's more sustainable than one-time payments, there are no external investors). But the business app is still fundamentally the same as the "private" app, jus
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Check out the transparency report for details: https://threema.ch/en/transparencyreport
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by dbrgn 8y ago
The most comprehensive comparison table I know is here: https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Threema does not fall under Russian jurisdiction, so no. http://www.ewdn.com/2017/03/16/russia-adds-intrernational-me... > Interviewed by Runet Echo, a Threema spokesperson said, however: “We operate under
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Threema does not rely on phone numbers. You can use it anonymously, and you can add other contacts without knowing their phone number. More details can be found in the crypto whitepaper: https://threema.ch/press-files/2
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by dbrgn 8y ago
A great day for listening to Pink Floyd!
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Abine Blur: User data potentially exposed(abine.com)
2 points by dbrgn 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Hacker News API Wrapper for Rust
2 points by dbrgn 8y ago|0 comments
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Crossposting my comment from the blog: The Rust example looks a bit strange, since you're matching on a variable, but don't actually use it. Instead, you could write the match like this: let div_by_three = x % 3 == 0; le
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by dbrgn 8y ago
There is simultaneous audio-translation of almost all German talks to English via DECT and in the stream.
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by dbrgn 8y ago
What about LiberaPay?
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by dbrgn 8y ago
U2F support in Firefox should work out of the box if the developers use the WebAuthn API and not the old JS library: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/using-hardware-token-based...
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Nice writeup. I love this quote: "The first few times an engineer sees this kind of hype, they often think it's a structural shift. For engineers later in our career, we’ll often dismiss structural shifts as misplaced hype after g
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Yes, but how many of those would go to a yearly "Manx language congress"?
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by dbrgn 8y ago
"como como un mono" (I eat like a monkey)
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Then you should check out https://dbrgn.ch/stories-from-the-internet.html . If you know more stories that should go on the list, let me know :)
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Mail Loop From Hell (2012)(blog.dbrgn.ch)
288 points by dbrgn 8y ago|87 comments
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Maybe try mupdf instead?
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by dbrgn 8y ago
Ads on DDG don't use tracking / remarketing, they are only based on your search terms. See https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates for details.
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by dbrgn 8y ago
I think this might actually be something positive in the long term: Google will control less of Chromium. (Still, it would have been nice if Microsoft would have chosen Gecko instead...)

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