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   Aswath Rao (aswath@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:52:00 JST Aswath Rao

   A new privacy protecting, but easy to use new player - Veilid will soon appear on the horizon. Color me skeptical. It claims it uses P2P. They use phrases like heavy node (Super node?). I wonder is it Skype in new clothing?

   Cult of Dead Cow hacktivists design encryption system for mobile apps - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/02/encryption-dead-cow-cult-apps-def-con/

   • @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: repeated this.
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     Aswath Rao (aswath@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:52:03 JST Aswath Rao

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     It turns out that they have a presence in Twitter from July 2020 and their first pinned tweet there is a hex code which I surmise it to be their public key. So that is a first clue. Will they also map it to a human friendly name like ATP et al do? A Hubzilla in the making?