“And the government officials can sell this data to me. Relatively inexpensive too”.
“And the government officials can sell this data to me. Relatively inexpensive too”.
Not to mention an XMPP server is lighter than even Conduit, let alone Synapse!
If it is a public groupchat - why not?
What about using a normal, non-Cloudflare VPS for this?
AND there have been news that RCS can be blocked for rooted phones and custom operating systems!
Where I live, a lot of popular services, including major foreign social media and torrents everyone uses, are blocked - yet they still have a massive userbase.
And since the scanning is supposed to be client-side, how would a server check if the scanning was really performed? What if the server does receive and log the needed responses, just to be safe, but the client actually just sends them automatically while lacking such functionality?
If I cared about the contents of email staying safe, would rather not depend on a provider and just use provider-independent PGP. If safety is more important than universality - then I’d use something outside of email in general, like XMPP+OMEMO or maybe Simplex.
Yea, it is clear if there is just one closed-source app. But if we’re talking XMPP/Matrix - they have multiple open-source clients, even if some of them does introduce scanning, no way it wouldn’t be forked to remove it.
The hardest part is finding a place to buy, especially without KYC. Once you do have Monero, it is VERY easy to use.
Even if this is illegal - how would such usage be detected? Your device just makes a request to a random domain on a random VPS, and the traffic is TLS-encrypted - would usage of XMPP/Matrix/whatever be that distinct?
Yea, my main issue is that because of the price, you’re locked to phones that are either out or almost out of support, or secondhand. Even the last generation’s cheapest model is $300! Though very tempted to try to save that anyway.
Plus they are not officially sold here, so always a bit of a gamble.
I self-host too, that wasn’t the problem, it’s that there is the power of the default. Just like with Matrix. You can ask a friend to use your server or another one and delete the main ones entirely, but chances are you won’t be avoiding them in a random chatroom.
Yea, my main concern for now is that most people are using default servers. Good thing their servers are very easy to host, but still, power of the default. I would really like to see lists of public servers, like what we see now for XMPP and Matrix. The thing is still young, so looking forward.
I wonder what would happen if you host a server but block the domains of the central ones, asking everyone you chat with to use other servers instead.
Why would I do that? Maybe if my bank doesn’t want to support a private currency like that. Or if they’re a legal gray area like crypto now is, so while it is semi-legal now, might change in the future.
So technically, you could buy it from a random KYCless seller like you can Monero too?
Ah. I know that a bank is involved with a recipient, but didn’t know a sender needed one too. But as long as the Taler works between banks that are prohibited to interact too - it would be very useful then!
I don’t quite understand how it works yet, so wonder: would it work in sanctioned locations, like how, say, Monero can?
Yes, that would be the best. My point is that there might be still some middle ground that OP wants to use for some reason.
Still, a decentralized protocol, not a platform, would have a much easier time circumventing stupid laws like this, as well as censorship.