Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages
naught101@lemmy.world 5 days agoA messaging app is extremely hard to “spin up bespoke solutions” for, because a solution’s success is 99% dependent on the network effect.
Perhaps when a protocol like signal but decentralised is available, then we might be able to say that.
brisk@aussie.zone 5 days ago
There are already a bunch of them, including XMPP and Matrix which both implement Signal’s double ratchet encryption (via OMEMO, in XMPPs case)
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Veilid comes to mind as well, still a work in progress
shads@lemy.lol 5 days ago
I’ve certainly played with Matrix, got voice working but video was a struggle (I may have just stuffed up my STUN server install). Yet again this is an area that organised crime, terrorist groups etc have it easier, they can dictate what their members use rather than relying upon persuasion to get them onboard. I am pretty certain that the NSA have people dedicated to infiltrating these sorts of small scale chat apps, but like everything else who knows how many are actually in the wild and just have good enough opsec to avoid that infiltration (and yes how many they let stay open for intelligence purposes).