Blaze@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 10 months agoThere isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down17 cross-posted to: signal@lemmy.blahaj.zoneprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.worldpulse_of_truth@infosec.pubtechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up179arrow-down1external-linkThere isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comBlaze@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square45linkfedilink cross-posted to: signal@lemmy.blahaj.zoneprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.worldpulse_of_truth@infosec.pubtechnology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareBobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down2·10 months agoYou don’t understand, we NEED to be on AWS, there isn’t really another choice. You don’t understand, we NEED to have your phone number in our private messenger. You don’t understand, we CAN’T be on f-droid. You don’t understand, we MUST have centralized servers, federation CANNOT work. Did I miss anything?
minus-squareZenAspirate@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·10 months agohttps://simplex.chat/ Self hostable as well
minus-squareBobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoYep. Either this or Matrix, XMPP or even IRC. Anything but Signal basically. Yet Signal is what people here usually recommend :/ I don’t even want to argue with them anymore.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoCan IRC even be encrypted?
minus-squaregloomweaver@forum.guncadindex.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoYeah, for… Decades?
minus-squareZenAspirate@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI got my family on sxc over a year ago it works pretty good for us I was like if I’m gonna make them all switch apps anyway I may as well go for gold lol
You don’t understand, we NEED to be on AWS, there isn’t really another choice.
You don’t understand, we NEED to have your phone number in our private messenger.
You don’t understand, we CAN’T be on f-droid.
You don’t understand, we MUST have centralized servers, federation CANNOT work.
Did I miss anything?
https://simplex.chat/
Self hostable as well
Yep.
Either this or Matrix, XMPP or even IRC. Anything but Signal basically.
Yet Signal is what people here usually recommend :/ I don’t even want to argue with them anymore.
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Can IRC even be encrypted?
Yeah, for… Decades?
I got my family on sxc over a year ago it works pretty good for us
I was like if I’m gonna make them all switch apps anyway I may as well go for gold lol