#encrypted chat

[amethystsoda]

I’ve never used Signal, but I’m looking into it 👀 also note the notification preview tip ^^

[laxmankodadala]

The Most Secure Encrypted Chat App

It may have been simpler to communicate with people around the world with the advent of instant messaging apps, but bad actors have found simple ways to access our data, company information, and other private information. Surprisingly, some well-known chat apps do not offer encrypted chats; nonetheless, a small number of chat apps still offer end-to-end encrypted communication.

Troop Messenger

Troop Messenger is a highly secure and best-encrypted chat app that can also be used by the military and NASA.

Troop Messenger is a multipurpose platform that may be used for work chat, business chat, instant messaging, and more.

It was developed to protect information that is shared on a daily basis, independent of the demographic or domain. It uses Server-Side Encryption (SSE) to safeguard and protect your data. SSE offers the benefit of decreasing environmental complexity in addition to guaranteeing data separation. Its features are quite proactive, nevertheless, and it's admirable that such a secure chat software has been developed recently.

Key Features

As stated, it uses Server-Side Encryption to secure and protect your data (SSE).

The user can check the details of all currently logged-in devices by selecting Activity from the profile settings menu. And it empowers the users to log out from the suspicious logged-in device.

The activity monitor also displays information about your usage, like the number of messages, photographs, videos, files, and storage space used.

By default, the one-on-one or group video and audio calls are end-to-end encrypted.

It has the option of a four-digit PIN which can be used instead of your user ID and password to sign in on your mobile device.

[ms-motivatedmind]

ENCRYPTED CHAT at http://kryptin.com/ | NO PHONE VERIFICATION | NOTHING STORED ON SERVERS | ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION DONE ON YOUR PHONES. IRONCLAD PROTECTION FOR MESSAGES THE SAME WAY YOUR OWN PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS IN YOUR LIVING ROOM ARE PROTECTED.

"I have great news for you. The world's first fully anonymous chat and messaging app, Kryptin just launched. With all the other messaging apps that you use, hackers, billionaire-owned corporations, and government agencies worldwide can dig up your private conversations whenever they want and destroy your career, your family, and more. You can get a Kryptin account without revealing your true identity.

This gives you 360 degrees of iron-clad anonymity. Your phone number is not connected to your Kryptin account, and your messages are never stored on Kryptin servers. Needless to say, every message you send is heavily encrypted. Get the Kryptin App today. What you say on Kryptin stays on your phones. Kryptin is Free Speech. Get Kryptin on your Android phone today!"

If you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement please reach out to us feedback@vajo.com

[taikeero-lecoredier]

CHAT CONTROL BACK ON THE AGENDA

If you don't know what Chat Control is, this post sums it up well, as well as to why its a bad idea, but in a nutshell, European citizens will be forced to accept having their private messages/photos to be scanned by AI Or else they can't send images, texts, videos or links anymore. The council vote has been delayed a few days ago, but it has been put back on the agenda according to this tweet

US citizens should help us spread the word, too, because if it passes theres no doubt the US governement will take "inspiration" from Chat Control and pass a similar law in the US too. If you're in the EU, you can find your reps here (if you click on them it will redirect you to the countrie's respective website of reps ) https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/ Join our growing discord server ! We are organizing scripts and putting together ressources ! https://discord.gg/FPDJYkUujM

SPREAD THE WORD ! We can't allow this to pass !

[cicerfics]

Mallory discovering that Bond shares all his doings (including the confidential work stuff) via his secret groupchat with Q, Moneypenny, and Tanner.

[tiralja]

Motherfucking meta force feeding it's AI on my phone through whatsapp tha I cannot just stop using because my relatives use that app so now it's just there. Just one click away. And you can't fuckin remove it.

Fuckin burn the whole company to the ground.

[depoteka]

i was so fucking sad when facebook encrypted my chats because i could no longer look up any messages from before that and our chat with maja is full of canons for our silly little au that we're creating. but today i found a way to look up old messages and i'm crying from happiness 😭😭😭

[brick-van-dyke]

Exactly.

Please please please look into your local activists and organisers. If there are none, I fully believe in all of you to begin being that organiser. If there's is community, join it and if there isn't start it. There is safety in numbers, but remember also this:

Existence is resistance, and together that existence can become as powerful as an uprising. Don't let this limit your strength and don't let his dampen your resistance and spirit in the face of another fascist advancement after a year of genocide, and years of totalitarian police violence and restriction. We can and will fight this, in the US, here in Australia, and every other nation the people are with you and we will fight with you.

i know it is very fucking hard to be any kind of optimistic in the face of such hatred winning, but no political fight ends with an election. feel your feelings and let them keep propelling you to fight for change, for any win possible, for any and every step toward positive change - because being defeatist gets you nowhere, and there are so many people out there already actively fighting the rise of fascism. that won’t stop. people have been fighting this fight since before we were born. so i love you, this isn’t the end of the world, it is always possible for things to be changed and improved and we don’t give up, ever. it’s gonna be okay.

[baffledapple]

I am thinking of the lava lamp encryption

[vhstown]

why is this in my drafts when my fics are like a literal landfill on fire to read

[anyday-happyday]

people will really do anything other than learn about IRC eh?

[robpegoraro]

The Apple story I wish I'd had time to write this week: The company caves on RCS

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After Apple killing off the Lightning connector on the iPhone (if only they would remember to do likewise with their input devices), the story I’ve most looked forward to writing about that company would involve it raising the lowest common denominator for Android-to-iPhone text messaging from its current miserable and unencrypted state. So of course that news broke, in the form of an Apple…

[hamadisthings]

HELP US STOP CHAT CONTROL!

If you live in the EU, you absolutely need to pay attention to what's to come. What is Chat Control, you may ask? In a (failed) attempt to combat child abuse online the EU made Chat Control, Chat Control will result in getting your private messages and emails to be scanned by artificial intelligence aka AI to search for CSAM pictures or discussion that might have grooming in there. And on top of having your private conversations handed to AI or the police to snoop in, like your family pictures, selfies, or more sensitive pics, like the medical kind, only meant to be seen by your doctors, or the "flirtatious" kind you send to your partner, you either have to ACCEPT to be scanned...or else you will be forbidden from sending pictures, videos, or even links, as said here.

Kids should absolutely be protected online, without question, but the things that Chat Control gets wrong is that this is a blatant violation of privacy, without even considering the fact that AI WILL create tons of false positives, this is not a theory, this is a fact. And for all the false positives that will be detected, all of them will be sent to the police, which will just flood their system with useless junk instead of efficiently putting resources to actual protect kids from predators.

It also does not help that politicians, police officers, soldiers etc will be exempt from Chat Control if it passes. If it's for the sake of protection, shouldn't everyone get the same treatment? Which further prove that Chat Control would NOT keep your data of private life safe. Plus, bad actors will simply stop using messenger apps as soon as they know they're being tracked, using more obscure means, meanwhile innocent people will be punished by using those services On top of this, the EU also plans on reintroducing Data retention called "EU Going Dark". Both Chat Control and EU Going Dark are clear violation of the GDPR, and even if they shouldn't stand a chance in court, its not going to prevent politicians from trying to ram these through as an excuse to mass surveil European citizens, using kids as a shield. Even teenagers sending pictures to each other won't be exempt, which entirely goes against the purpose of protecting kids by retaining their private photos instead. Furthermore, once messaging apps are forced to comply with Chat Control, the president of Signal, a secured messaging app with encryption, have confirmed that they will be forced to leave the EU if this is enforced against them.

If Chat Control also ends up targeting any websites with the option of private messages, you better expect Europe to be geo-blocked by any websites offering such function. I would also like to add that EU citizens were very vocal in the fight against KOSA, an equally bad internet bill from the US-- and it showed! Which is why we heavily need the help of our fellow US peers to fight against Chat Control too, so please, because we all know if it passes, the US government will take a look at this and conclude "Ooh, a way to force mass surveillance on citizens even more than before? don't mind if I do!" It's always a snowball effect.

KEEP IN MIND THE EUROPE COUNCIL WILL LIKELY VOTE ON CHAT CONTROL THIS 19 JUNE OF NEXT WEEK TO SEE IF IT WILL ENTER TRILOGIES OR NOT. Even if it does enter Trilogues, the fight will only be beginning. Absentees may not count as a no, so it is crucial that you contact your MEPs HERE, as well as HERE, and you can also show your support for Edri's campaign against Chat Control HERE.

You can read more on Chat Control here as well, and you can find useful information as to which arguments to use when politely contacting your MEP (calling is better than email) here, and beneath you will find graphics you can use to spread the word!

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN OUR DISCORD SERVER (linked here) TO HELP ORGANIZE AGAINST CHAT CONTROL NON EU PEOPLE ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO JOIN TOO!

https://discord.gg/FPDJYkUujM

PLEASE REBLOG ! NON EU PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO REBLOG AS WELL CONTACT YOUTUBERS, CONTENT CREATORS, ANYONE YOU KNOW THAT MAY HELP GET THE WORD OUT ! Let's fight for our Internet and actually keep kids safe online! Because Chat Control and EU Going Dark will only endanger kids.

PLEASE REBLOG! NON EU PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO REBLOG AS WELL CONTACT YOUTUBERS, CONTENT CREATORS, ANYONE YOU KNOW THAT MAY HELP GET THE WORD OUT !

Let's fight for our Internet and actually keep kids safe online! Because Chat Control and EU Going Dark will only endanger kids.

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In The Time It Takes To Rise

People say I'm too soft sometimes, that I let things slide, wait too long, or give too many second chances. But I don't see it that way.

I think my patience is one of the few things that's kept me steady in a world that's anything but. When the cafe gets busy and the orders stack up and tempers flare, I take a breath. I smile. I keep moving. There's a rhythm to waiting, like the way bread rises, or tea steeps just right. You can’t rush good things. People need time too, as well as space. And someone who won’t give up on them the moment they mess up.

I guess that’s where the kindness comes in.

I don’t really go around calling myself kind, but I notice things. I notice when someone in sad or happy. When they stir there coffee for too long, lost in thought. When they say “I’m fine” but won’t meet your eyes. I’m not great with big, loud gestures- but I’ll remember your order even if you haven’t been in for a few days. I’ll slip an extra cookie into your bag if it looks like you had a rough day.

that’s what I like about myself. That I try to make room for people, even when they’re hard to understand. That I wait. That I care, quietly.

Source: In The Time It Takes To Rise

[ms-demeanor]

You may have posted about this before, but im very curious about you saying "email was a mistake" because it's such a cemented part of online communication. Is it the technology?

Email became infrastructural in a way that it was never intended to be and wasn't designed for.

There is too much momentum toward email being the primary means of business communication that unless there is a massive technology shift we're unlikely to see wide adoption of an alternative and email takes up so much space in the IT space that it's hard to say what the alternative would be.

Much of what used to be email now happens in company chat apps, which I think is an improvement in many ways, but you chat with your coworkers in a way that you're unlikely to chat with a client or send a quote to a prospect.

A huge amount of effort goes into making email better, and making email systems talk to each other, and making email secure because it is so ubiquitous that you can't realistically ask people not to use it.

But it's fucking terrible and we're asking too much of a set of protocols that was supposed to send small, not-very-private, communications between academics.

Why can't you send big files via email? Because that's not what email is for.

Why is it a pain in the ass to send encrypted emails? Because that's not what email is for.

Why aren't your emails portable, and easy to move from one service to another? Because that's not what email is for.

Why are emails so easy to spoof? Because they were never meant to be used the way we use them so there was no reason to safeguard against that fifty years ago

It's like how social security cards were never meant to be used as one of your major super serious government IDs where all of your activity through all of your life is tracked, because if they knew they needed a system for that they probably would have built a better one in the first place.

Nobody who sat down and developed email looked more than half a century into the future and went "so people are going to be using this system to create identities to access banking and medical records and grocery shopping and school records so we'd better make sure that it's robust enough to handle all of that" because instead they were thinking "Neat! I can send a digital message to someone on a different computer network than the one that I am literally in the same building as."

We think of email as, like, a piece of certified mail that is hand delivered in tamperproof packaging to only the intended recipient who signs for it with their thumbprint and a retina scan when it is, instead, basically a postcard.

It would be absurd to try to do the things people do with email with postcards, and it's *nearly* as absurd to try to do them via email.