On 05/24/2016 07:06 AM, Erik 'egnun' Grun wrote: > have you already heard about the new hot shit? > Briar[1] is a "next level" messenger
Erik! Hot shit?! The briar project started in 2011! It recently gained another push by finally attracting some funding. I hope Michael Rogers, the guy behind it, was successful in recruiting good developers. The main feature of Briar is that it is supposed to work in a purely peer-to-peer fashion without central servers, specifically in situations where there *is* no Internet connectivity (using Bluetooth, local meshes, etc). Tor is just the fallback mode for "online". In theory, Signal (and Whatsapp) could well use Tor to connect to its servers and provide some metadata protection too... I think it is a very specialized solution for risk situations, and not (mean to be) a replacement for popular messengers. I tried the private beta back years ago and it still needed a lot of work. I do like the idea, and I think services that work when gateways to larger networks are cut will become more and more important... It would be interesting to read a more thorough comparison to other similar products, which is not Telegram or Whatsapp or Signal, but things like the Serval project, also aimed towards peer-to-peer in mesh situations
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