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#openpgp traditions and #signal both bind a cleartext identifier, phone number or email address, to a cryptographic key. It opens up attack vectors as the servers/orgs controlling this binding can interfere.

#deltachat avoids such cleartext identity bindings by creating random #chatmail addresses, as transport only. The cryptographic key becomes the identifier and we want it hidden from the transport layer. Only people being in end-to-end encrypted chat need to identify each other, after all.

#WhiteHouse figures out how it texted #secret bombing plans to a #reporter

A White House investigation has reportedly identified the mistakes that led to a #journalist being added to a #Signal text chain in which #bombing plans were discussed hours before the strikes occurred.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz walks outside while carrying a briefcase in one hand and a phone in the other.
Ars Technica · White House figures out how it texted secret bombing plans to a reporterBy Jon Brodkin

#Signal

Fast geschafft!
Mit meinen 6 WhatsApp-Gruppen im Seniorenverein bin ich fast komplett zu Signal umgezogen. Einige Nachzügler bekommen noch Unterstützung und dann kann ich mich auch bei WhatsApp vollständig abmelden.

En la Escuela Municipal de Música y Danza Las Gabias utilizan Linux Mint como sistema operativo para el ordenador de la administración. También hacen uso de una instancia privada de Nextcloud con Collabora Office para gestionar la información de todos los alumnos y la escuela. No usan los servicios de #Google y #Microsoft para su correo electrónico, usan el del proveedor de alojamiento, #Acens. Para elaborar documentos, usan #LibreOffice.

Hasta la fecha, sí han podido sobrevivir con soluciones más comprometidas con la privacidad del usuario.

Y ahora, para el próximo curso, voy a impulsar desde la Escuela el uso de #Signal como plataforma de mensajería para todas las comunicaciones profesores-alumnos-familias.

Desafortunadamente no creo que vayan a tener por ahora presencia en el fediverso... aunque como dije, todo es, por ahora...

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@b0rk i desperately live for a future where terminal app devs start living by ux and accessibility standards (showing exit shortcuts on screen, etc) so we can leave our current “everything is wrapped in a web browser” hellscape.

why is every #signal update 400 MB? that could EASILY be a very cute terminal app but instead, there it is, taking up three-quarters of a gig of ram in my task manager. :blobcatnomfloppy: