Session
When people think private messaging, a couple big names usually pop up, but do they deliver on this reputation?
Truth is, not all private messengers offer equal security.
Check out our latest vid to learn more on which ones to avoid.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-1lpgSqARs
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https://odysee.com/@Oxen:0/the-truth-about-private-messaging-apps:5
Chris Ely
This is either a very common propaganda technique or a misunderstanding a lot of people have.
The point of end-to-end encryption is not having to trust the node/server/admin/nation that your encrypted data passes through!
Not knowing who's behind the node or where it is, or even which node is going to be used, actually makes it harder to collect all of your metadata and encrypted messages.
As to the funding, it's not what matters, the control does, and that rests with the users.
Chris Ely
Features of a good messaging app:
1. End-to-end Encryption
2. Metadata Protection and/or Minimization
3. Open Source and Externally Audited
4. Non-profit organization
Avoid:
- Telegram
- WhatsApp
Try:
- Session (of course, 😉)
@session
- SimpleX
@simplex
- Threema
@threemaapp
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m-1lpgSqARs
Alternative 🔗:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=m-1lpgSqARs
https://piped.video/watch?v=m-1lpgSqARs
Öffentliche Parkbänke m. Tisch
Sessions traffic runs accross 4.000 nodes and they do not know who´s behind each node! Thats pretty unsecure!
Australia as a 5-Eyes Member is bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Sessions suspicious "finaciers" doesn´t make better:
https://loki.network/team/
novatorine 🏴🏳️⚧️
@tcely @Pabamiti also it should be noted that the entire point of the way Session routes your messages through three (iirc) nodes is so that no single node knows both the source and destination of your message, as well as no node having access to the message itself. So you can only even have your metadata (sender and receiver) compromised if all three of the nodes your message randomly chooses to route through are compromised, which is an absurdly low probability given the thousands of nodes to choose from. It works the same as the Tor Onion network, and Tor is literally the gold standard for this kind of thing, and has the same "problem" of the owners of its nodes not being known. Which, as has already been pointed out, is actually a good thing.
novatorine 🏴🏳️⚧️
"TOR is paid for by the US government"
As I already explained, it *doesn't matter* who sponsers a privacy technology or who even runs the servers (unless they run ALL of them), the ENTIRE POINT of the technology is that there's no backdoors and it's secure and encrypted so it doesn't matter who runs it because they still won't be able to see what you're doing.
"And if this is supposed to be the gold standard, I wonder why sites from the darknet are regularly exposed!!!."
There could be quite a few reasons besides Tor being somehow "compromised", because Tor can't fix bad opsec surrounding it. Every case I know of of someone who was using Tor being found out or whatever was a case of them making a mistake that had nothing to do with Tor and being found because of that. If you can give me an example of Tor actually being compromised, then go ahead.
Öffentliche Parkbänke m. Tisch
TOR is paid for by the US government (Open Technology Fund).
And if this is supposed to be the gold standard, I wonder why sites from the darknet are regularly exposed!!!.
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