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My semiannual telegram reminder, Telegram serves warrants now and does not actually provide DM or group chat privacy in 99% of use cases.
Telegram fundamentally does not have sound security architecture for the modern world.
@nullagent I'm seeing a lot of recommendations for Signal, which I equally distrust as Telegram as well and Matrix. Secure communication is becoming a matter of life or death for many.
@bryanredeagle@beige.party@Sh4d0w_H34rt @nullagent Why no trust for Signal? And what do you trust?
@bryanredeagle @nullagent Signal relies on centralized servers and encryption keys were being stored in plain text. Unless I can host an app myself I can't fully trust what it will do or who they give access to. It needs to support end to end encryption with no logging. Bonus if it can be deployed adhock over out of band networks.
What I recommend, well I don't know. I'm looking into Meshtastic, but that requires dedicated hardware, Matrix is good, but extra effort has to be made to make it secure. Sadly, projects like @supapp appear to be abandoned.
@Sh4d0w_H34rt @nullagent @supapp So without a reasonable alternative, maybe Signal is pretty good enough. It's not perfect (nothing is), but it's open source, had its encryption vetted by cryptographers and universities, and doesn't store messages on their servers.
The meta data is there, but if you're that worried you can get a burner phone number and use that for your account. The number doesn't even need to be the one on the phone you're using with Signal.
@bryanredeagle @nullagent @supapp they have a username option meaning you don't share your phone number.
@Sh4d0w_H34rt @nullagent @supapp Yeah. I was thinking more if their servers were compromised or searched by the US government (since they're a US org).
