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What's the best messaging platform? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I wanna know what is the most secure and best messaging app/platform... Need an app that is crossplatform and has a very good numbers of features and security. (And it has to be FLOSS) I thought about XMPP clients, Signal, Session, IRC clients.. Propose and explain me your choice

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think we can be pretty damn sure that the encryption is not backdoored since the Signal Protocol is the gold standard in encryption nowadays and thousands if not more highly skilled cryptographers without tied to the US govt looked at it thoroughly. Also Snowden calls Signal the best messenger on the grounds on him using it daily and still being alive so that's also a pretty good sign.

Also, do you have a source about them being mainly funded by the US govt? In their blog they talked about mainly being funded by small donors and a few initial loans from people who care about privacy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also Snowden calls Signal the best messenger on the grounds on him using it daily and still being alive so that's also a pretty good sign.

The real litmus test right here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so, do you think it is better to arrest 1 person and make flew away all the others users than let this guy live in peace and spy on millions others?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean if they'd use the backdoor no one would know. It's not like they would declare ah ye we used our secret Signal backdoor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

For sure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ok, my bad, it's not mostly funded now (though funding isn't totally clear for all of its history) but we do know it was handed 3m near the start by Open Technology Fund which an arm of the US Agency for Global Media which is the US govt, and at best has the mission of pushing us news ideology globally. Ex they did Radio Free Asia after tianamen square, and guess what, that was conceptualized by none other than senator Joe Biden

Yeah the encryption is probably okay, and I use it daily, but these backdoors are often hella sneaky and we know that the US govt loves doing shit like that if they can

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Right

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think than Signal messages are mostly not backdoored but maybe all the profile picture, the name and the description are surely leaked to US gov if they found most of the servers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Signal has been subpoena'd multiple times by the US government to hand over all user data. Signal complied. The only data that Signal gave, because it's the only data they themselves have access to, is the username, the unix timestamp of when the account was created, and the unix timestamp of when they last signed on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That's not how it works. All metadata is also E2EE with the same protocol. Even if they control all servers it wouldn't change much.