Oddbean

simplex UX is still not good enough, recommending to the "regular" users in its current state, especially on iOS, ends up making people reluctant to seek security as they associate it with trade-offs. much rather tell people to swap their telegram/WhatsApp over to signal and be happy with that for now.

until the #nostr client devs finally realise that the simplicity of nostr kind 4 DMs with NIP-65 is actually beneficial whatscrap, telescam, and all the rest of the phone-bound chat protocols suck, zero mobility of the account, no concept of "contacts", and all simplex gives you is untethering from the GSM, but that's it, nothing more

IF AN EXPLOIT LEVERAGES ACCESS TO THE FULL FILESYSTEM THEN THEY CAN JUST MAKE A COPY OF THE MESSAGE DATABASE, KEYS, AND FILES AND MAKE A RECOVERY RECORDING THE DISPLAY IS ALSO AN OBVIOUS WAY REAL END TO END ENCRYPTION IS DOING THE ENCRYPTION ON THE USER'S PHONE. IF YOUR APP DOESNT DO THIS THEN IM AFRAID YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED. THEY WOULD NEED TO PUSH A MALICIOUS UPDATE ON BOTH THE SERVERS AND THEIR APP FOR MESSAGES TO BREAK MESSAGE CONTENT. RUNNING A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY OF COMPROMISING A COMPANY, APP AND SERVERS TO GET AN IRRELEVANT NEWS REPORTER = MONTHS IF NOT YEARS OF WASTED TIME, STUPID, EASY TO GET CAUGHT PRESSING THE ZERO-CLICK STEALTHY EXPLOIT WITH SPY PAYLOAD BUTTON = IMMEDIATE RESULTS, THE SMART WAY, HARDER TO CATCH HE LIKELY HAS NO CYBER SECURITY EXPERIENCE AT ALL. HE IS A NEWS REPORTER. ALSO WE CANT REALLY BE SURE IF WHAT HE IS SAYING IS EVEN TRUE BUT THATS OKAY. IN END TO END ENCRYPTION THE SECURITY OF THE ENDS STILL MATTER. ITS ALL GONE TO WASTE IF ANY OF THE CHATTERS ARE FUCKED.

double agent or disavowed from the agency? 🤔 Tucker’s father was a journalist and worked for CIA. Like his father, Tucker was probably working undercover at FOX ( still is ..? ) I think his trip to Russia and interview with Putin are part of back room negotiations attempt by the agency.

Interview for fools. At first, Durov did not hand over the oppositionists to Putin. And then he simply sold their data to the new owner of VK for money. And the new owners are completely controlled by Putin.

If somebody is looking for a secure messenger.... Check: SecureMessagingApps.com Rate: 🟩=3 🟨=1 🟥=0 Results: 1. Threema = 86 = most secure Messenger 2. Signal = 80 3. Session = 77 4. Wire = 68 5. SimpleX Chat = 67 6. Wickr (Amazon) = 61 7. Element / Matrix = 56 8. Apple iMessage = 37 9. WhatsApp = 32 10. Telegram = 27 11. Facebook Messenger = 26 12. Microsoft Skype =10

Good point. But what about @Signal as a US government and CIA asset, @ODELL, @Meredith Whittaker? “Never acknowledged in any serious way by the mainstream media, Signal’s origins as a US government asset are a matter of extensive public record, even if the scope and scale of the funding provided has until now been secret. The app, brainchild of shadowy tech guru ‘Moxie Marlinspike’ (real name Matthew Rosenfeld), was launched in 2013 by his now-defunct Open Whisper Systems (OWS). The company never published financial statements or disclosed the identities of its funders at any point during its operation.” In other words, Signal gifted the CIA "well over a billion" potential insurrectionists, by providing them with a means to organize their activities away from the prying eyes of local authorities. Accordingly, Signal was and remains very prominently used and promoted by dissidents and protesters backed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US government agency explicitly created to do overtly what the CIA once did covertly. This was the case in Hong Kong, where Endowment funding serendipitously began flowing to opposition groups a year before Signal’s launch. In July 2020, it became the island’s most downloaded app, after the controversial National Security Law was passed. Washington was for some time enormously proud of its investment in Signal. A 2019 USAGM factsheet gave the app top billing in a list of "examples of tools supported by OTF." It further boasted that "over two billion people use OTF-supported technology daily," and "more than two-thirds of all mobile users globally have technology incubated by OTF on their device," which begs the obvious question of why the Fund’s sponsorship of Signal ended.” https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia-cuts-funding nostr:note166dpl95mhjjhw3pxq5ezm3syyrt42enhrrdlvgwqclf3pfekdetsk2n4fv

Telegram is shit and getting shittier every day. I use it way too much. Durov sounds like a manipulative liar and I had never heard Tucker Carlson before, looks like he is just a scammy journalist by the way he speaks. Also from where is Durov taking the money he is spending like crazy on Telegram with no revenue for over 10 years? But it's surprising that Telegram only has 30 employees (?) -- if that is even true. Good news for the scalability and viability of smaller operations that we don't need huge companies and all their bureaucracy and overhead.

Durov's answers were a little too perfect. Seemed very produced. If he truly is running dev, and he's gamified hiring elite talent, then maybe 30 works. Not like I'm seeing massive feature sets rolling out.