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Using Signal groups for activism

micahflee.com Using Signal groups for activism

Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli genocide, for mutual aid, and for other forms of fighting fascism. Signal can help people safely organ...

Using Signal groups for activism

I am personally not a big fan of using Signal for various reasons, but this seems like a good guide if you have no better options easily available.

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  • Why is Signal not good enough any more?

    • Signal can be good enough for some things, but it is under control of the US government and runs on infrastructured owned by Trump best-buddy Jeff Bezos.

  • When it comes to encrypted messengers there is no better option. Most cannot hold a candle to Signal's encryption.

    Edit: Nor their security and transparency.

    • XMPP implements the exact same encryption method as Signal.

      The problem is not the encryption, but everything around it. Signal has certain trade-offs due to its centralized nature (that are made significantly worse by being under US jurisdiction), and XMPP has other tradeoffs due to its decentralized/federated nature.

      • We disagree it's exactly the same as it's not on by default for everything and it has been slightly weaker in previous versions of omemo.

        Also most XMPP clients do not keep up to date with the latest version of omemo, sadly.

        Also, yes, XMPP is a pain to use, especially when it comes to omemo, there is no easy way to verify, as comparing a long string of numbers is not easy or accessible.

        I doubt many servers have a transparency report, nor can they fight court orders, I would imagine.

        Edit: Trying to join XMPP groups with encryption can pretty much be forgotten too, as comparing the verifications strings for everybody in that group, especially in big groups, would take far too long.

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