Supernova1051

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

to add even more to what's already been said, even if Signal's infrastructure was compromised and they could see messages traveling through their servers, each one is encrypted, the keys are rotated with every message (cracking one, which is nearly impossible, doesn't give you access to previous or future messages), and thanks to Sealed Sender, only the recipient knows who a message came from. There are many other layers that they've engineered to ensure they can't know anything about you, like private contact discovery, using secure enclaves, remote attestation, etc.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Signal is a publicly available app that provides encrypted communications, but it can be hacked.

This is misleading statement that will only confuse people who want to use a secure messenger.

To clear things up with anyone who's not technically inclined: Anything can be theoretically hacked. Signal has not been hacked and has no history of being compromised.

The Signal "hacks" that linked people's Signal client to devices that aren't theirs were sophisticated phishing/spoofing attacks. The equivalent of getting someone to click a malicious link via email because it looked like the real thing.

A reminder that you still need to do your due diligence even when using a secure service. Technology alone cannot completely protect you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

asked this somewhere else, but does anyone know how it compares to Cryptpad which is also developed in France, open source, self hostable, collaborative, and end-to-end encrypted?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

H.265 is patent encumbered. Blame the 2 or 3(?) patent pool holders (for-profit corporations, unlike non-profit -and-slowly-losing-market-share Mozilla) for not making it free to use for everyone.

This is why AV1 is preferred, it saves bandwidth and there's no threat of being sued into oblivion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But then you're indirectly giving the enemy (Google) power by increasing their browser market share, which in turn lets them dictate the future of the web.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tesla facilities face wave of attacks as Elon Musk delves into politics

I love good news!

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 weeks ago

Stephanie Lovins is a piece of shit racist

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Just a reminder for anyone not in the know:

While Bluesky is better than Xitter right now, don't forget that it's still a centralized service that has censored - and will continue to censor - content they disagree with. Bluesky Relay servers costs so much to run that it's only financially feasible for big corporations to run them. This forces centralization, although technically can be decentralized, and puts it's end users onto the same path of enshittification that Xitter and other social networks have gone through.

Mastodon, while imperfect, is actually decentralized (including DM's - all Bluesky DMs are centralized amd can be viewed by its admins) and cannot suffer this type of censorship.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (17 children)

I've been giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I'm kinda done with them. Anyone have any suggestions for a mail provider? I'm not yet willing to self-host that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

just tell people to join mastodon.social. problem solved

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is a great workaround but then all your private notes are on Google's servers, accessible to anyone with enough admin rights on their end. All apps should be end-to-end encrypted going into 2025. There's no reason security AND privacy shouldn't be included.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've never seen constant login reminders, but I've only used it in a browser, and the Android/Window/Linux apps are you seeing it on iOS? Maybe its a bug? If you go to settings in the app and then click "Help and support" > "Report an issue" you can open a github issue. I've had really good success in getting issues resolved.

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