Ukrainians turned to encrypted messaging app Signal as Russians invaded

https://mashable.com/article/ukraine-spike-signal-encrypted-messaging-app

by cryoz • 4 years ago

11 4 4 years ago

This is low-effort content.

No mentions of Briar, Tox, Wickr, Wire, XMPP+OMEMO, irc+tor etc which don't require you to link your account with phone number?

Or failure-resilient mesh networking over p2p links like Babeld, cjdns, B.A.T.M.A.N+OpenWRT etc. in the absence of reliable external internet connectivity.

The balkans and eastern europe have a long and rich history of p2p internet & sneakernets, which sadly may have slowly been forgotten as everybody becomes locked into App-ified walled gardens of internet-dependent consumer trash.

slezyr• 4 years ago

No, it's a PR company from Signal. I'm in Kharkiv right now. I know no one who uses Signal here. Everyone still uses telegram for all the communication and news.

There is a lot of news about Signal, but it's simply not here. And yes, if I have to replace it, I'll go with something that does not require a phone number. Mobile networks might go down.

quesomaster90002• 4 years ago

The irony is that Telegram is operated by a Russian company, it's linked to your phone number, and it's not end-to-end encrypted by default so everything is plain-text (even p2p messages are not encrypted, unless you enable that option).

Ukrainians turned to encrypted messaging app Signal as Russians invaded

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