Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
Applause 👏 for the Delta Chat team for coming up with such a creative solution for onboarding non-technical users into using email for secure end-to-end encrypted messaging, with the User experience of the familiar Messaging app.
agreed, this is an amazing way to get people to use something secure without having to make "yet another account"
For someone relatively tech illiterate like myself- how does this compare to something like telegram and signal? What's the benefit?
the benefit is that it uses the existing email systems, and doesnt require account or data storage with other services
the benefit is that it uses the existing email systems
Instant Message Delivery
These two things conflict then. SMTP as a protocol is NOT instant. Far from actually. It's best effort.
i havent looked deep into the protocol, so i cant argue.
Libre software and more decentralised than Signal but less than SimpleX.
people are free to make choices.
Good defaults help spread libre software, privacy.
Maybe, but then people disagreeing with those defaults leads to the massive amount of fragmentation and "too many choices" we are now dealing with in the FOSS world.
What is up with SimpleX people? It's like the new Rust or NixOS crowd. Anytime a messenger is mentioned, you can bet there's a comment about SimpleX in there.
SimpleX is libre software and decentralised, the most decentralised voice chat here, so why spread anything else?
Can someone ELI5? I still don't get it after reading the post description and the link.
It's a instant messenger that uses email as the backbone.
Kind of like how SMS and MMS was bootstrapped to a telephone number.
Very nice, a big issue for nooby users was the mess Deltachat created in their regular email inbox.