To anybody who used my #Gmail, #Gnus and #GPG Guide: Something seems to have surfaced regarding PGP And GPG, so maybe switch to some other technology such as Signal for the moment.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now
https://github.com/kensanata/ggg#gmail-gnus-gpg-guide-gggg
@kensanata
Can we just federate Wire and Signal then do away with email altogether?
@kensanata @eliasg I absolutely ❤ this line "Not only does my email account get sent bills I don’t want to read, the bills I need fetch the bills I need to pay from the garbage dump of humanity, the Junk and Spam folder."
It'd have been so useful if Signal started allowing users to add usernames too as an identity.
@officialcjunior
Yes. I don't use it for precisely this reason. I prefer Wire.
@kensanata
@officialcjunior Or how about usernames *instead* of phone numbers.
Yeah, then we'd have total privacy.
@officialcjunior @kensanata That's exactly what Wire is doing.
@skiant Does Wire do end to end encryption these days? I faintly remember it not doing that some years ago.
@kensanata Yeah, Same protocol as Signal. Everything is encrypted (files, audio, video). And they are 100% open-source + working on federation so you could self-host.
@skiant That does sound very exciting!
@kensanata Yeah. Not to mention I feel the UX is way above what you have in Signal. They include tons of features that most tech-savy users would deem extraneous or ridiculous, but matter a lot for wider adoption (sending gifs, hand-drawing, and so on).
So yeah, except for the occasional glitches (sometimes notifications are not working on some people devices), they're really my go-to communication channel.
@eliasg https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-03-18_Email_is_the_New_Snail_Mail