Signal Contingency Plan
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Do you use Signal for chatting securely with friends and loved ones? Us too! We endorse it wholeheartedly, and rely on it for nearly all our communication.

But the vibes are deteriorating here in the US, and we should have a communications contingency plan for if Signal goes down.

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    12 hours ago

    For people who already recognize the Delta Chat brand from years ago, confusion stems from the fact that it’s now practically two different things at the same time:

    • An encrypted messaging overlay for email addresses you already have
    • An entirely novel messaging system that uses purpose-built servers incompatible with email

    The former can introduce massive problems with metadata if, say, one of your contacts uses a Gmail address with DeltaChat.

    And despite basically redefining their ecosystem from the ground up, Delta still hasn’t implemented forward secrecy, which I would consider table stakes these days.

    Complaints aside:

    [S]how us a centralized, end-to-end encrypted Signal alternative that is not backed by venture capital, blockchain, the Saudi royal family, or all three, and we’ll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

    This is an entirely fair point. The closest alternative I might consider is SimpleX, but its creator is already pushing people to the Blockchain!