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Signal Piracy group (signal.group)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw some threads here about Telegram and piracy stuff being banned. So, as an experimental alternative, I created a public Signal group for piracy.

Maybe it'll be useful?

Before joining

Signal supports usernames and hiding telephone numbers. Here's a blog entry on how to do so. You might want to:

set a username
change your profile name (these are two separate things!)
hide your phone number

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What are the "popular" alternatives? Telegram stores everything, WhatsApp doesn't allow usernames, Matrix requires IPs too...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

SimpleX

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Despite their claims of total privacy, I imagine, like any software company, they have full access to their own back end including encryption keys and server logs. Meaning they can and probably will moderate their own platform if there is enough pressure from nation states/IP owners.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are welcome to audit the source code and host the backend yourself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You understand that, for everyone except for a complete network pro, that is worse for security and privacy, right?

Don't get me wrong, it's great that you can.

But the reason piracy websites struggle so much with long term stability isn't because they're hosting the wrong software.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you don't put trust on someone something, you left yourself to trust and do all the works. However, you don't trust yourself either, sadly I can't offer any solutions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

TBH I would just use email over TOR and encrypt communication with PGP. Rotate identities every now and then and you should be fine. Yes it doesn't have forward secrecy but it removes the effort to find the "right messaging" service and is instead ubiquitous (and you can sign up for anonymous email addresses online too, which makes it even better).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Session?