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Re:Briar Project by untog on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:59PM (#24032522)
Which requires you to trust your neighbours. To which you might say: aha! Just use end to end encryption! And sure, you can. But at that point, what benefits are you getting over using E2E with a centralised system? Very few. And you’re getting a bunch of drawbacks in terms of reliability too.
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Re:Briar Project by maqp on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:34AM (#24038220)
E2EE only protects content. Metadata is also very important and where as p2p apps like Briar, Ricochet, Cwtch and TFC hide it from all, centralized and decentralized apps have one or more weak points that allow eavesdropping on larger amounts of metadata.
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Re:Briar Project by myself248 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:59PM (#24033133)
I dunno, a centralized server means a centralized off-switch, that's a pretty huge drawback in terms of reliability.
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Re:Briar Project by afiori on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:07AM (#24035929)
which is why centralized/peer-to-peer is a false dichotomy the solution to many of the problems of both of them is (forkable) federated networks
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