On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 09:00:16PM +0200, a wrote:
> > I wondered how you feel about using this app considering privacy.
>
> The data is zero knowledge encrypted which provides
> privacy. On anonymity signal is terrible. You cannot use fictional phone
> numbers. Phone
> numbers open for various
Hi
On 16 October 2019 00:19:24 BST, dllud wrote:
>Hi Fil,
>
>If I remember correctly Signal uses Google Cloud Messaging or other
>similar Google service for push messages. Thus it depends on the
>non-free Google Play services. That's the reason why it isn't available
>on F-Droid.
I'm not sure
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:36:56 +0100
dllud wrote:
> Good to know it no longer uses GCM. Sorry for the outdated info.
>
> Still, if you are starting from scratch, like Fil apparently is,
> better opt for a federated network like XMPP or Matrix.
This is also more robust as there are many different
> My personal suggestion would be Siskin IM, since it has complete OMEMO
> support and does not suffer from bugs like the one for ChatSecure above. You
> can find out more here:
>
> https://siskin.im/
Great tip! Had never heard about this one. Thanks!
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:36:56PM +0100, dllud wrote:
> Still, if you are starting from scratch, like Fil apparently is, better
> opt for a federated network like XMPP or Matrix.
XMPP is generally better, since it has been around for about 20 years and so is
a lot more solid (fewer bugs, more
Indeed the centralized architecture is a big downside, philosophically at
least, and with a potential single point of failure (even if I can imagine they
use several distributed systems, it still remain on some centralisation like
DNS).
Thank for your advices and answers.
- Fil Lupin.
Good to know it no longer uses GCM. Sorry for the outdated info.
Still, if you are starting from scratch, like Fil apparently is, better
opt for a federated network like XMPP or Matrix.
Nick, for XMPP (with OMEMO) on iOS you can use https://chatsecure.org/
Regards,
David
On 16/10/2019 11:48,
Hi Fil,
It is possible to install and use Signal on Replicant now, it no
longer relies on the Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) libraries it used
to. As David mentioned, it has some downsides, such as reliance on
one server, but it has worked well for me for some years now.
It isn't in fdroid at
Hi Fil,
If I remember correctly Signal uses Google Cloud Messaging or other similar
Google service for push messages. Thus it depends on the non-free Google Play
services. That's the reason why it isn't available on F-Droid.
Furthermore Signal is a centralized service, with all clients
Hello,
I read again a bit about Signal app and the license is GPLv3 for client and
AGPLv3 for server.
However, this app use servers with a (very) few metadata (day of last
connection, but not who interact with you).
I wondered how you feel about using this app considering privacy.
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