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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Or you can wait for Actor - we are working on porting Signal's crypto to our platform and we are already have much better UX, Servers and full featured slack-like (but easier) desktop/web clients.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Paul was never billinaire. He got ~300M from selling vk.com. Spent ~100M in first year. Spending on telegram's servers only is ~1M/month and telegram is 48+ months old. So he already spent almost half of his money.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Founders of Telegram was never successful in OSS, they just don't have interest in this. This was clearly marketing stuff. I tried to make something really opensourced, but no one was interested in the Telegram LLC.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
I hope when our project start it's next stage we will clean up all such stuff. Clean and easy privacy policy is one of our highest priority tasks.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Can you say what you need for "final" solution?
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
CEO of Actor Here! Yes, we have desktop applications: https://actorapp.ghost.io/desktop-apps-updated/ Sorry, we are not advertising it on our landing page, we are a small team and not paying enough attention to marketi
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
So, Let's Encrypt became 4-th in the world by amount of certs? Am i right?
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
I am sure that own instances will run much better, but i prefer cloud services for storing such important data.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
We tried to switch. After few days devs make a note on the table "X days without GitLab being down". X always was < 2.
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Show HN: Locolo – service for sharing things(locolo.me)
1 points by ex3ndr 11y ago|0 comments
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Almost all brazil FOSS community is in our completely open app: https://actor.im
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Locolo – service for sharing things(locolo.me)
1 points by ex3ndr 11y ago|1 comments
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Interesting that there are actually no encryption at all, just simple math equations.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
We will release in next two weeks encrypted end-to-end version of Actor.im that will met this requirements except that is will be reviewed, important part but we will do this in nearest future.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
or Actor.im
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Can this be used in production? To make NSA-free servers?
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Not a surprise that just moving packets from one socket to another is fast. In 2016s you need to store messages on server, do big file transfers. Presence need to be update every couple seconds. (like whatsapp) You need to have large group
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
We added one extra level based on Russian encryption. So if Curve25519 or AES encryption will be broken there are still be russian level. To break our crypto Russia and US need to cooperate that is impossible.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Telegram is actually not open, they just throw some sources to github or as zip files at their's langing page. That's why i quit Telegram and built open source "Telegram" - https://actor.im and replaced spage
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
One main problem is that you have to make passwords recoverable. In real world message like "warring! we can't restore your key!" just doesn't work at all. People ignore it and still want you to recover their keys. Also
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
This is impossible, Facebook Messenger doesn't have any open protocol at all. Facebook will fight everyone who will try to do so.
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App for Drag-N-drop Google Material Icons into Sketch(github.com)
1 points by ex3ndr 11y ago|0 comments
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Will ProductHunt shutdown OpenHunt with power of law?
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
What platform are you using behind this?
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Text secure is a cool application, but they are not focused on people. Very different goals of projects.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Right now we ( https://actor.im/br/ ) are trying to launch free and open alternative to WhatsApp/Telegram with Open Source community in Brazil.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
We are trying to make so at Actor ( https://actor.im ).
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Full disclosure: Worked at Telegram That's why, we after quitting Telegram and starting to build Actor we decided not to implement theirs encryption because it always looks like spagetti-encryption.
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by ex3ndr 11y ago
Our short story on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9757243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9889057
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Actor Platform v1.0 Release(actorapp.ghost.io)
2 points by ex3ndr 11y ago|1 comments

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