I'm surprised you didn't mention matrix.
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I didn't because I don't know anything about it, except it being FOSS and I think decentralised. That's it.
Nice! Really good initiative!
I've looked at dessalines's essays recently, and in his opinion Signal isn't secure enough. He also gives some suggestions for alternatives.
the requirement for phone numbers should be enough to dissuade anyone from using Signal for anything but low-stakes communication :|
AFAICT Matrix is pretty good in terms of security, even if the overly complex encryption occasionally causes unreadable messages
As the guide mentions, it's very much troublesome to Americans, but not for example Polish people. You can walk into any corner store, buy a sim card starter for 5zł ($1.25) and have a phone number that signal will accept. All of that anonymously. If other countries have similar possibilites like Poland, it should in no case be looked over.
Since when they dropped name registration for Polish SIM cards?
Tell me more. I hope I'm not wrong about just being able to buy a starter and straight up using it without anything more required, because I remember doing just that in the past.
It's impossible since 2017! All prepaid cards are tied to names, surnames and PESEL number.
There is a legal act: https://dziennikustaw.gov.pl/D2016000090401.pdf
There is a passage: „Art. 60b. 1. Abonent, z wyłączeniem abonenta korzystającego z publicznie dostępnych usług telefonicznych świadczonych za pomocą aparatu publicznego lub przez wybranie numeru dostępu do sieci dostawcy usług oraz abonenta usług przedpłaconych polegających na rozpowszechnianiu lub rozprowadzaniu programów telewizyjnych drogą naziemną, kablową lub satelitarną, podaje dostawcy usług następujące dane:
- w przypadku abonenta będącego osobą fizyczną: a) imię i nazwisko, b) numer PESEL, jeżeli go posiada, albo nazwę, serię i numer dokumentu potwierdzającego tożsamość, a w przypadku cudzoziemca, który nie jest obywatelem państwa członkowskiego albo Konfederacji Szwajcarskiej – numer paszportu lub karty pobytu;"
A NO KURWA JEGO MAĆ TE PIERDOLONE CHUJE JEBANE
The guide will be ammended IMMIEDIEATLY after I finish my shift!
This information is extremely crucial and important, I will look into Matrix as to replace the hole left by Signal! Thank you very much for this information.
It may be possible to buy it anonymously, but you'd still need to be very careful not to let it communicate with any cell phone towers and reveal your home's location (e.g. by only inserting it in some public place, registering on Signal, and then removing it). There are also other concerns listed in the linked document that make Signal even more suspicious
Yeah, and it would be best to put such a sim card in a burner phone. You don't want to get identified by your main phones IMEI.
Thanks, I'll read that and incorporate the info as well as link to the essay later today.
Cool! Could this be the start of a big comprehensive secure communications wiki?
Maybe, but these guides definitely aren't themselves ever finished so feedback is always welcome. I just hope I can help ease comrades in what is basically absolutely necessary in today's times: computer literacy. A wiki might just end up a natural progression from the guides I make, and it will definitely contain more info than just secure communications.
According to this article, you shouldn't use Signal. Rather, you should use SimpleX or the other alternatives mentioned in said article.
Thanks, I'll take a look.
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