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#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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Wie schon immer das Hรคschen wusste: "Haddu Netzwerk, haddu Probleme."
Nein, das meinte ich nicht.
Was ich meinte, ist dass die Software fรผr einen Massenrollout einfach zu neu ist und fรผr den Einsatz in Organisationen fehlt einfach der Track Reckord.
Innovation ist bei der Software-...
#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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...feindlichen Agenten gearbeitet haben. Oder sich mal รผber die falsche Person (wie z. B. Bjรถrn Hรถcke) รถffentlich geรคuรert haben.
Die Anwendungsfรคlle fรผr den kรผnftigen "worst case" sind fast grenzenlos, m.W. nicht einmal in einem Science Fiction (Dystopie) abgearbeitet, denn derart unbegrenzte Daten gab es bislang noch nie.//
#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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...๐weltpolitischen Umfeld kann niemand wissen, was morgen verboten sein wird.
Im Gegensatz zu den 1930er Jahren wird jedoch alles รผber jeden praktisch unbegrenzt gespeichert, auch die Bewegungsprofile.๐
Nur als so eine weitere Idee: man kรถnnte ja aus purem Zufall monatelang, undifferenzierbar fรผr GPS, im Nachbarbรผro eines...
#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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Noch ein paar warnende Worte fรผr alle die, die meinen, "ich habe doch nichts zu verbergen":
Eine deutsche Touristin wurde aufgrund ihres Tรคtowierungs-Besteckes beim Grenzรผbertritt aus Mexiko wochenlang unter รผbelsten Bedingungen durch die Einwanderungsbehรถrde #ICE festgehalten.
Im derzeitigen chaotischen...
#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
๐ #SignalHack๐
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...Clouds of #Google, #Amazon, #Microsoft & #Cloudflare. They can de-anonymise every user!
Here are all the tech details:
primal.net/e/note14hf9%E2%80%Aโฆ
Weitere Infos zum #SignalHack:
social.tchncs.de/@Optimus/1140โฆ
fed.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profileโฆ
chilemasto.casa/@sebagutiem/11โฆ
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Sebastian (@sebagutiem@chilemasto.casa)
#Hackers explotan la funciรณn de dispositivos vinculados de #Signal para secuestrar cuentas por medio de cรณdigos #QR maliciosos https://blogs.masterhacks.Chilemasto
#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
๐ #SignalHack๐
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ich von meinen bisherigen Recherchen denke ich dass es vom groben Inhalt mindestens stimmt:
aus einer gebridgten Bluesky-Convo:
"The #SignalApp is not secure, as they promise to be!
#Signal collects metadata the same way that #Whatsapp does.
All of Signals traffic runs across the...
#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
๐ #SignalHack๐
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#Signal scheint mir aufgrund des #CloudActs und der zunehmend faschistischen US-Regierung (der illegale Datenabfluร durch #DOGE kennt wohl geschichtlich keine annรคherende Parallele) als nicht mehr sicher.
Die Quelle konnte ich bislang nicht validieren, aber...
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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...via@TheGuardian:
"๐#WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of #Israeli spyware,... #ParagonSolutions...1)
๐Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society๐ using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by #Meta,...
๐It is way past midnight to stop using #Meta products 2). ๐
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Or other #BigTech apps.
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๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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... pushing #Threema for the general public, as it is the "least of all evil." This, in particular, as #WhatsApp owner #Meta is the worst/most leaky offender of them all. ๐
The danger is not only immemt, but has been very real for many for some years, as the #ProjectAnalyticaSummit showed years after #Meta's #ProjectAnalyticaScandal in the wake...
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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... can pick up your meta data directly from there, thanks to the [#US] #CloudACT๐:... "
... my conclusion has been that, ๐despite the fact that, for years, it's encryption technology had been outdated...
schnaeppchenfuchs.com/news/thrโฆ
... we should *still* rally around...
Schweizer Forscher decken Sicherheitslรผcken bei Threema auf
Eine Forschungsgruppe der ETH Zรผrich entdeckt Sicherheitslรผcken der Messenger App Threema. CEO Blatter hรคlt die Kritik fรผr rein theoretisch.Schnaeppchenfuchs
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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... ๐our international discussion: ๐
pleroma.iselfhost.com/objects/โฆ
In conclusion, as all services using #US servers like signal have been compromised since the #CloudAct went into force,
"Since #Signal's entire traffic runs over the clouds of #Amazon [#AWS,] #Google, #Microsoft & #Cloudflare.
๐All US services...
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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... extensive analysis of alternatives about 2 years ago, most of which I had never heard of, despite the extensive discussions we've had here several times here in the #Fediverse (of which I can only still find one convo:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109โฆ
There are but 2 alternatives of that French market research, #Olvid and #DataBag, that still made it...
HistoPol (#HP) ๐ด ๐บ๐ธ ๐ด (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @smallcircles@social.coop Friendly reminder: People, stop using #Meta, #Google, and other #BigTech Apps that make YOU the product! There are already so many right-wing governments.Mastodon
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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... I still have one, but ๐federated #XMPP just somehow can't seem to take hold outside of its own niche" ๐.
If you wanted to dig down even further, you'd get to the point where you'd have to deal with #Protocols:
eattherich.club/@jmhorner/1109โฆ
A French ๐ซ๐ท librarian association made an...
JM Horner โข๏ธ (@jmhorner@eattherich.club)
@HistoPol@mastodon.social @smallcircles@social.coop Sweet! :-) For those who do not know, XMPP is a protocol (similar to the ActivityPub protocol being used by various fediverse services) that has many client applications.ETR
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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....value anymore.๐ The future of #Matrix always seems somehow, em.. unconfirmed? An interesting project. I wonder where it will go. There's been a LOT of #VC [#VentureCapital] funding up to now, one might assume some return is expected at some point. Maybe not though. I've run #Jabber servers in the past,...
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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... still relegated to the "nerd niche," maybe unjustly so by now, IDK. (?)
mstdn.social/@distopico/111007โฆ
As @kino put it succintly in that convo,
"๐At this point I'm not taking the open source == good (just coz) argument at face...
Distopico (@distopico@mstdn.social)
@HistoPol@mastodon.social @kino@mamot.fr @smallcircles@social.coop that is one of my points, why if we have XMPP and Matrix we want to promote more options? That makes pretty hard to the end user choice one of those, XMPP, Matrix, SimpleXChat, Jam,โฆMastodon ๐
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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... I've pointed out in an older thread ๐งต here and Cory @pluralistic in a now famous speech about #Enshittification, there's the severe lock-in effect, the negative aspects of the #NetworkEffect.
There are #XMPP and #Matrix, the "ancient" and "obvious" #FOSS choices. I've never used them but from what I've read, they were never able to gain much market share and are...
#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
๐Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? ๐
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True, however the most important criterion is that a replacement messenger app for #WhatsApp must have any chance at replacing #WhatsApp.
As a friend of mine phrased it here on Mastodon: "I have a hard time convincing my friend and family even to switch to [the known services,] #Signal or #Threema.
As...