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A comment on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life. Parent comment

Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by trangus_1985 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:25PM (#28080078)
Yeah, but it's also useful for getting my friends on board. I think it's likely that I eventually start hosting matrix or some alternative, but my goal is to be practical here, yet still have a privacy protecting posture.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by Sunspark on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:28PM (#28080863)
Your friends aren't going to want to install an app to have it connect to trangus_1985's server. Be happy just getting them on Signal.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by trangus_1985 on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:51AM (#28084722)
My friends are significantly more technical (and paranoid) than the average user. We've already discussed it.

But... yeah. Yeah. Which is why I got as many people on Signal as I could. Baby steps. The goal here, right now, is reasonable privacy, not perfection.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by Sunspark on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:47PM (#28102153)
Well said, as I like to point out sometimes, Signal is a privacy app not an anonymity app.
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