Pakistan has sentenced a 22-year-old student to death over photos and videos he is believed to have shared over WhatsApp. The BBC has the details: https://flip.it/Z-1IVV
#1 way you know your org is using @matrix for communication: the ratio of content-bearing messages to "could you please discard your session?" messages is significantly < 1:0. #matrix#messaging#chat
#Signal#Cybersecurity#Privacy#Messaging: "Signal is a nonprofit, but we’re playing in a lane dominated by multi-billion-dollar corporations that have defined the norms and established the tech ecosystem, and whose business models directly contravene our privacy mission. So in order to provide a genuinely useful alternative, Signal spends tens of millions of dollars every year. We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
Here we review some of these costs and where this money goes, in the name of providing more transparency into Signal. But we hope to do more than that. Where money goes and how it’s made is a bit of a taboo in tech, something that most tech companies avoid talking about. The actual costs of consumer tech are generally hidden behind stories of innovation and the word “free,” and the connection between the product marketing of a highly profitable tech industry and the ingress and egress of profit and revenue is usually unclear. We believe a material map of these dynamics can help clarify just what is required to fulfill the dream of privacy-preserving alternative technology, and contribute to establishing a solid foundation from which we can grow alternatives that contest tech surveillance and the incentives behind it."
Element has a new home and will be adopting AGPL license for Synapse, Dendrite and associated server side projects.
"Future code contributors to Synapse will need to sign a contributor license agreement (CLA) based on the Apache Software Foundation’s CLA, giving Element ownership of their contribution so we can use it to help fund Matrix core development in future."
I mean, it’s simple: We can’t provide the information. So you can put a gun to my head — you’ll have to shoot. We don’t have it because it’s end-to-end encrypted. There’s no balancing that’s in our hands because of the guarantees we make. In part, [governments] are threatened because we can’t provide that information. There’s no way to sort of sit on us hard enough so that we start to undermine what we’re doing. Our code is open, it’s verified; our protocol implementation is open, and it’s been tried and tested. Everyone’s thrown everything against it, trying to find a vulnerability. They haven’t [found it]. This is a robust system. You’re not just trusting me to not play nice with governments. We literally don’t have the data, which is the only way to actually preserve privacy."
The Signal messaging app has been facing battles in India, Russia, Iran and other countries for its unyielding stance on privacy. The platform's president @Mer__edith talks about how the company deals with restrictive legislation from countries like India, she talks about concerns over competitor Telegram and her threat to pull Signal out of the UK.
Die von Ashton Kutcher gegründete Stiftung Thorn gilt als Triebkraft hinter dem EU-Plan zur Chatkontrolle. Dabei geht es auch um millionenschwere Geschäfte.
Currently more than two billion users are relying on the Signal #protocol to protect the privacy of their #communications, and if Meta implements encrypted chat by default in #Facebook Messenger there could soon be billions more. As far as we know the Signal protocol is cryptographically secure, but currently all the eggs are in this one proverbial basket. An as yet unknown flaw in the Signal protocol could compromise the #safety of billions of users. More research should be done to further confirm its safety