@Keychat - why does the app try to connect to Google? Installed from @Zapstore

SIGNAL MESSENGER IS NOT FOSS

Tails 6.11 REMOVES support for hardware wallets in electrum Anyone know the rationale behind it? Will the functionality come back? #asknostr

> Governments are increasingly concerned about the vulnerability of centralised communications platforms, such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and consumer messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal. They are obvious honeypots that attract great interest from rogue nation states. Such systems are also vulnerable to global outages, whether that’s vendor mis-management or the result of nation state activity. > Decentralised technology puts the ownership and control of a communications platform into the end-user organisation’s own hands, either by self-hosting or using choosing a trusted hosting provider.

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Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix

Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interope...

Signal sucks - requires a phone number - requires you to keep that number, or dox your gps location, to change devices - unnecessary captcha - closed source backend yes, it's way better than whatsapp but a looong way behind Simplex

Yo, SHAME

G4 storm sending 5 CMEs to Earth this weekend