• aport@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    I’m OOTL, why do people want an alternative to Signal? It thought that was the good app

    • kbal@fedia.io
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      5 hours ago

      It’s centralized, it doesn’t officially allow 3rd-party clients, it requires a phone number, and the desktop app kinda sucks. I use it anyway, but it could be better.

    • Confetti Camouflage@pawb.social
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      6 hours ago

      I don’t know about other people, but the only thing I don’t like about Signal is that it is centralized. It seems to be the only option to actually get everything right for security though from what I hear.

      • Soatok Dreamseeker@pawb.social
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        5 hours ago

        That’s a reasonable thing to dislike about it.

        I dislike that I can’t reply to another message with a sticker.

        I also dislike that, despite having admin access, I can’t delete abusive messages left in groups for anyone but myself. That makes it unsuitable for building communities.

  • vollkorntomate@infosec.pub
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    8 hours ago

    […] it uses the X25519 public key… as a symmetric key, for AES-GCM.
    […] anyone that knows the public key can decrypt it.

    Ouch.