What do you think about Session as a potential replacement for Signal?
What do you think about Session as a potential replacement for Signal?
Session is a private messenger that aims to remove any chance of metadata collection by routing all messages through an onion routing network.
Especially for the less tech-savvy among us?
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Briar doesn't even use a central server, all connections go through tor
Briar doesn't make sense to me because you're trading a central server for a central service... If tor is down, you can't message. It's the same POF as cellular, which is insane to me.
TOR isn't a centralized service, it's a distributed network.
It's also a specific procol, which can absolutely be blocked. I don't know where this notion that it's impossible to block tor because it was designed to be censorship resistant came from, but you can absolutely stop people from using it.
It's not even that hard and there's nothing end users can do about it if they don't know how to circumvent it...
It can be blocked, but blocking bridges is a constant whack-a-mole (especially now that they have Webtunnel which, while apparently not as robust as some dedicated obfuscation solutions, is still a noticeable improvement). My bigger problem with Briar is that both recipients have to be online to message, or you have to set up a "mailbox".
Being able to be blocked is a completely different thing than being centralized service.
[...] there’s nothing end users can do about it if they don’t know how to circumvent it…
I mean, if users don't know how to circumvent something, by definition there is nothing that they can do about it.
However, unless this hypothetical censoring country is blocking all encrypted network traffic it is trivial to access TOR via a VPN or an SSH tunnel