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Re:Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging by lrvick on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:20AM (#33691734)
The biggest privacy problem of Briar is it requires iOS or Android to use.

If you cannot control your endpoint, you cannot control your keys or your privacy.

Briar will become useful to me when it can run on open platforms like a Pinephone, Librem 5, Precursor, etc.

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Re:Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging by giphyman on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:44AM (#33691903)
There is a WIP desktop client which is targeting linux phones: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-desktop#design-goa...
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