On Sat, 13 Mar 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can
confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really
secure/private".
I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see
the code of the client, but AFAICT it's still just as centralized :-(
Since it's end-to-end encrypted I fail to see what major benefit
federation would bring for one-to-one communication and small private
groups.
WhatsApp is also (presumably!) end-to-end encrypted, so that's not the
only problem with it.
The problem is also the metadata: it still leaves a centralized record
of who sent what size of message to whom at what time and from which
IP address.
an excellent point. furthermore, you can be summarily thrown off a
central service, by the provider; it is *much* more difficult to eject
someone from a federated service.
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Tom Yates - https://www.teaparty.net
