It’s been in the same state for like five years, there’s no priority on the bits that would get it over the line

I have received maybe 3 spam messages in many years of use

Spam is a huge problem on other messaging apps I have tried

Contacts are never uploaded

Hashes of some numbers are if you enable contact discovery

Verifying keys is easy, what are you talking about?

The idea is you don’t need to trust the server

Messages sent don’t contain a readable sender field

Mobile numbers may not be necessary long term, architecture depends on accounts being created Witt phone numbers. Usernames were very recently introduced. Soon we may see requirement for phone number dropped, unless related to spam control

Secret sender invalidates your metadata argument

It doesn’t “mess with your contacts”. You can choose to give contacts access if you wish to have secure contact discovery. Contacts are not uploaded.

It’s robustly encrypted and quantum secure, without metadata leaks like the sender of a message.

It’s recommended by Edward Snowden.

If you want to message someone, have the ability to verify there is no man in the middle attack, have perfect forward secrecy, very strong crypto, use open source software and still have all the conveniences of a modern message app, use signal.

Secret sender stops any real amount of information about messages being connected to you

Weird down votes?

+1 syncthing

Get a tiny ITX box with a couple 20TB refurbished HDDs, stick it at a friend’s house

I use syncthing to push data offsite encrypted and with staggered versioning, to a tiny ITX box I run at family member’s house

I don’t think brain fog is the same as being dumb though

Good to know, cheers

System 76 ship to southern hemisphere

Like not updating or shared dependencies duplicated for every single app image

Just use flatpak

What kind of security is google good for?

I was today just working out how you’d grep a paper dictionary

First day on the internet?

I care about privacy

I use gmail

Pick one

Isn’t this the TV show Person of Interest?