In 2016, we started running the messenger review series on decentralize.today since we anticipated how significant they would become in the mix of communication options and the impact on privacy. Predictably, we have reviewed (and re-reviewed in some cases) the usual suspects, Threema, Signal, Matrix, Telegram and co., however,...
Moxie Marlinspike was one of the creators of the Signal messaging service, which is considered to be the 'gold standard' for encryption. Moxie Marlinspike@moxie23 Dec 2021 It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger....
Since 2016, decentralize.today has been keeping an eye on which messenger is the best to use. The biggest questions are always; is this service private and how easy is it to use? One messaging service that made it from humble beginnings and shot to become one of the biggest...
Every year recently, we have conducted monthly reviews on messaging service providers. Some we have covered a number of times to talk about their development or degradation in the privacy of their service. A lot has changed over the years, BBM has gone, in fact, Blackberries are no longer in...
An old favourite and one we are often asked to review...so it is with great pleasure that we've invited in a new guest contributor, Will Ellis from PrivacyAustralia, to give us his take on it! WhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy After Huge Fine Maybe you recall pop-ups warning you,...
Mastodon vs Twitter. The public loves to put a VS between entities, as if things are always in opposition to each other’s. At Boiling Steam, we use both, or rather, I use both since I am responsible for the communications on such networks. I am not going to go...
