So if you lived in a society where you had to secure your communication in order to be yourself around others, here are the apps that could help you do that.
Signal let’s you securely text and make phone calls.
Onion Browser allows you to surf the web without leaving a trail.
Duck Duck Go isn’t super secure but it won’t record your searches like Google.
ProtonMail is a email client that lets you email other secure email accounts.
Periscope allows you to stream live video.
Semaphor is there so you can securely make group chat rooms.
American privacy laws allow you to use these all. So that’s pretty cool.
Because we’re currently living in the prologue of a cyberpunk dystopian novel, imma reblog this.
hey everybody! this is a good list but just to be clear—ProtonMail is snake oil security, and their threat model does not make any credible improvements over HTTPS.
Signal is good, and secure, and you should use it.
(IF you only used ProtonMail on your iphone, and never on your browser, and only for communicating with people already on ProtonMail, then it would start approach the security of Signal)
Also, I can’t find any good security analysis of Semaphor, which is a really bad sign. Computing security is based on the concept of peer-review—building a system you can’t break just means that only people who are smarter then you can break it. If this app was really legit it would have gotten way more attention from the security community. I would not advice recommending it at all until this consensus emerges.
In conclusion: Use Signal or Whatsapp if you need to communicate securely.
Signal is slightly preferable, but whatsapp is good too. If you’re using one of these then you’re in a good place, security wise. There’s no reason to move off of one to the other—it’s more important to use either of them consistently then risk people falling back to SMS when they can’t get in contact with you.
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