mrbiber

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by mrbiber 9y ago
This is not about some general vague problem with "extremism" of which supposedly all sides are guilty. This is about the emergence of a right-wing terrorist movement which has already committed several attacks. When your first re
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by mrbiber 10y ago
Riot.im uses the OLM encryption library (that is also used by XMPP OMEMO, see the OMEMO XEP). The OLM protocol is (I gather) very similar to the Signal protocol. Riot is based on Matrix which is a decentralized protocol (you're not tie
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Wire messenger bot API available(github.com)
1 points by mrbiber 10y ago|0 comments
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by mrbiber 10y ago
Riot.im is almost there, together with e2e crypto, foss stack, server federation and bridges to slack, irc etc.
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by mrbiber 10y ago
Matrix.org/riot.im has working federation, end-to-end cryptography, works without Google Play and is completely open source. The encryption is audited, but not yet enabled by default, as there are still some rough edges. But the apps h
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by mrbiber 10y ago
I'm surprised to see that matrix.org / riot.im is not mentioned as an alternative to Signal. They have a federated, open protocol, usable open-source apps for web/Android/iOS, registration without a phone number (even em
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by mrbiber 10y ago
If you are interested in federation, riot.im [1] / matrix.org seems to have comparable security properties to Signal, allows federation of servers and does not require your phone number or Google Play. [1] https://riot.im
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by mrbiber 10y ago
At the moment, Signal and Wire seem to be the best options. They have open-source clients, end-to-end encryption, are easy enough to use that even less-computer savy people can be realistically convinced to use them and they seem to offer d
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by mrbiber 10y ago
I totally agree. My hope is that because Matrix has an open protocol, there will be more competition in the client space which will lead (eventually) to good UX.
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by mrbiber 10y ago
riot.im [1] (which is based on matrix.org) seems a good, decentralized, open messaging app. They have relatively nice mobile apps and they promise to soon release end-to-end encryption based on the OLM [2] ratchet which is similar to the Si
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by mrbiber 10y ago
As far as I know, the identity is just a public key. You can add contacts only by either scanning a qr-code disayed on your contact's phone in person or by being introduced to each other by a mutual contact, so there is no real need fo
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by mrbiber 10y ago
I am very hopeful that Briar ( https://briarproject.org/ ) will achieve this. They don't use any centralized infrastructure, the app works even when the net is down, and they have e completely distributed and thus uncens
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by mrbiber 10y ago
Metadata-free chat exists already on the desktop with Ricochet ( https://ricochet.im ) and it will soon exist on mobile with Briar ( https://briarproject.org ). Both work through Tor hidden services - Briar also allows t
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by mrbiber 11y ago
I took part in the Whiteout crowdfunding and I think that their client was very promising, especially as there is still no Free Software client for Android that supports PGP/MIME properly. I also had the impression that it was just a l
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by mrbiber 11y ago
In principle, this should work - I haven't tried it, but in Conversations, the fingerprints of my other connected devices show up and I can say that they belong to me. In any case, there are no desktop clients yet that support OMEMO. C
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by mrbiber 11y ago
I'd be very excited to see more Free Software instant messaging applications support OMEMO ( http://conversations.im/omemo/ ). It's basically TextSecure's Axolotl protocol with a few slight modifications.
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OMEMO Multi-End Message and Object Encryption(conversations.im)
2 points by mrbiber 11y ago|0 comments
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by mrbiber 11y ago
I'm not affiliated with the project, but from what I gather from the description, the reason is that they want to have completely open hardware.
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Own-Mailbox, the first 100% confidential mailbox(kickstarter.com)
31 points by mrbiber 11y ago|20 comments