“We need to go beyond Signal” – How today’s AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps
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Instead of dismissing Signal, I wonder if it could be changed to support a federated model.
Just a thought, because Signal has seen widespread adoption. Getting people to change their messenger is hard.
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What about a peer-to-peer model with relay servers like SimpleX?
Maube but Simplex really sucks balls IMO
read cryptographers blogs. kike Saotok the furry iirc. also simplex has a cryptography report that it has failed and not implemented.
Signal is against federation.
Not supporting the puppet government of said Big Tech could be another good strategic thing to do, don’t you think Andy?
He doesn’t. He said that on the issue of privacy the Republicans were more responsive than the Democrats.
This was his tweet:
Didn’t age well, if you ask me.
Which is actually crazy.
And then you use a centralized service by Google to redirect the link rather than just using the link itself. 🙁
Here’s the actual link: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps
Oh jeez, that’s embarrassing. I’m a Noob poster. I’ll do better next time.
I would definitely encourage you to edit the link for this post to include the correct one!
Yep. Fixed it the moment I replied.
Too late. OP is now noted as a google plant. I’ll stick to more reliable source like the other people on this sub
lol
Matrix was developed by an Israeli company so hard pass on that. Signal looks like the best we got. https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html
What exactly is your concern? It’s a decentralized service, so it’s not as if any of your data has to be controlled by them to use it
I can only understand the concern if it related to how many the chat room and users are mostly created in offical Matrix instance instead more be self-hosted and even that is a reach
Onion is also decentralized, and everyone knows it’s monitored by the alphabet agencies. So yeah, I’d consider a hidden encryption vulnerability a solid possibility.
Shame on you, OP.
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps
Lol a Google share link on the privacy forum. Anyone know where it goes? OP can you fix it?
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/#simplex-chat
Decentralized services habe one huge advantage: Most people don’t unterstand, how it works, where to register and do on. Additionally federation comes with lots of additional to get most of connections.
Therefore: Centralized is definitely the way but not using shitty big tech. Maybe backup infrastructure could also be a way.
And Proton? Couldn’t stop laughing.