Trop de bruit avec Signal : les métadonnées en cause dans les messageries chiffrées

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/xcli/blog/160725/trop-de-bruit-avec-signal-les-metadonnees-en-cause-dans-les-messageries-chiffrees

#Signal est régulièrement désigné comme LA meilleure application de messagerie sécurisée. Pour autant, cette supériorité universelle et présentée sans nuance relève d'un manque de finesse de l'analyse. Pire, elle met en danger les journalistes et leurs sources, les activistes et certaines minorités. Nous voyons pourquoi dans cet article.

#infosec #cybersecurite #simplex #matrix #olvid

One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger#Apps.

My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal¹, #Telegram, #Discord², #WhatsApp, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:

• WHY is there no #CrossProvider#Messenger to handle that shite?

• WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated#WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU they can??

This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)

• And no, bridgesdon't count!

• I mean API 0 - style access because obviously none of the platforms will allow, endorse or support such an endeavour and actively fight the developers and users !

So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidginfor garbage platforms!

• Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!

• Can we please get that back?

#api0#Enshittification

How to use #signal groups for activism. Technology only goes so far. People have to use it correctly. This is a good article explaining how to use signal groups.

The article also explains why people might choose signal.

https://micahflee.com/using-signal-groups-for-activism/

#signal wird von einer gemeinnützigen Organisation entwickelt. Es ist nicht mit Facebook und Telegram vergleichbar.

Hello! #signal has no AI functionality, and doesn't collect user data other than date of registration and the time and date you last connected to the service. https://signal.org/bigbrother/

Hallo! #signal verfügt über keine KI-Funktionalität und sammelt keine Nutzerdaten, außer dem Registrierungsdatum sowie dem Zeitpunkt und Datum deiner letzten Verbindung zum Dienst.

Heute habe ich meine #Signal, #Telegram & #WhatsApp Communities geloescht. Vor allen bei den Meta-Produkten bin ich rigoros.

Wusstet ihr, dass all eure privaten Nachrichten dort mit einer AI geteilt werden & ihr dies fuer jeden einzelnen Chat abschalten muesst?

Account loeschen geht schneller!

🎧New podcast: Signal president @Mer__edith Whittaker in a conversation with Evelyn Austin of @bitsoffreedom about Signal, privacy and AI. Hosted by Nuria Ribas Costa and @dedependance

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/videos-podcasts/podcasts/meredith-whittaker-on-signal-surveillance-and-the-future-of-ai/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #privacy#AI

And best of all, they are also here!

Do follow @thecontinent here if you want to follow their stories and are not using #WhatsApp.

Edit: Also available in #Signal according to their bio here.

#TheContinent #journalism#Africa

Attended a great talk yesterday at @dedependance hosted by Nuria Ribas Costa with @Mer__edith and Evelyn Austin ( @bitsoffreedom) about #Signal, AI and Europe's "Big Tech Initiatives" (amongst other things).

They had an interesting perspective on how Europe can catch up on the US with regards to Big Tech, "the cloud"¹, hyperscalers, etc.

Their perspective was: should we even want this? Should we want to copy the US's Big Tech template and perhaps end up like them?

¹ such a dumb term

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Het is officieel: Signal heeft meer dan 2 miljoen gebruikers in Nederland 🥳

Lees meer 👉 https://signalapp.nl/signal-app-nieuws/het-is-officieel-signal-heeft-meer-dan-2-miljoen-gebruikers-in-nederland/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #privacy #apps #nieuws #tech

My humble suggestion to you:

(1) Prepare a Signal group.
(2) Leave Facebook.
(3) Friends & family will ask why.
(4) Tell them and propose Signal.
(5) Some will migrate, some won't.

Eventually, mid-term, you'll find yourself in a better situation than when you get rid of the Meta leash, and also better than before Meta existed. This is the 1st step of the mile.

It worked for me!

#Signal

We now have multiple platforms to communicate with us. We're on #Matrix , #Signal and #Discord . Please see https://links.btfree.org if you'd like to join any of these communities. We'd prefer Matrix, but we want to make our platforms as accessible as possible, so we're trying to be as many places as possible.

We now have multiple platforms to communicate with us. We're on #Matrix , #Signal and #Discord . Please see https://links.btfree.org if you'd like to join any of these communities. We'd prefer Matrix, but we want to make our platforms as accessible as possible, so we're trying to be as many places as possible.