Session Messaging App Reviews

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Session Messaging App mentions (3)

• By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

  Yes sure. There isn't much a userland app can actually do if your OS wants to spy on you. I wonder why they spend their time on this? Meanwhile, Signal still requires a phone number to register and use. It's terrible: phone numbers are easy to lose, and not everyone has a phone number. I like the ideas behind the Session[0] messenger: create an account with no authentication (no phone number, no email, no... - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Useful Sites for Privacy and Security

  Session - Anonymous, decentralized messaging app. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

  Anyone tried https://getsession.org/ seriously? - desktop and mobile clients, cross-platform (with an AppImage that installs on old systems) - end to end encryption - onion routing, based on the Oxen Service Nodes [0], which also propels Lokinet that allows to anonymously browse the web - no phone number or email required - group chats, voice messages, voice and video calls (webRTC), attachments, emojis... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Tinfoil Chat mentions (6)

• Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

  Tin Foil Chat is in this variety - mailboxes are tor hidden services identified by their public key. https://github.com/maqp/tfc. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger

  I'll feel pessimistic like this, but then something like Tinfoil Chat [0] comes along and sparks my interest again. It's still all just theoretical to me, but at least I don't feel so bad about things. With a little bit of hardware you could get a lot of assurance back: "Optical repeater inside the optocouplers of the data diode enforce direction of data transmission with the fundamental laws of physics." [0] - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Is Telegram an encrypted messaging app?

  >You can have your phone compromised (especially when I know your phone number, Signal I’m looking at you) or be subject to other means of attacks, exposing everything. Knowing someone's phone number doesn't automatically let you compromise their device. This is such a ridiculous argument. >I would rather know that this app is not secure so I don’t share anything important, while keeping secure communication to... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Signal's president vows to reject UK law on message scanning before encryption

  >No e2ee app has compromised device part of their threat model. Oh really, here's one I made earlier https://github.com/maqp/tfc :-) >The whole OS can. So how are you backdooring a bash script that comments out lines of code from Linux source before compiling it? You lying to policy makers with "it can be done" mindset sound like a stupid con that burns a lot of money and... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Most secure and private (trace resistant) messaging app in market?

  But as I said, it is way easier to install Pegasus on your phone or to grab / steal the unlocked phone from your hand, than break any of these. If you want absolute privacy, you should think about your physical security, and the trustworthiness of your devices before choosing the right chat app. Check the Tinfoil Chat for more information. Source: almost 2 years ago