Subj : w/o the govt, fed or China listening
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Ogg
Date : Mon Jan 27 2025 12:11 pm

Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

 pF> I just don't know how you get a group of people to use
 pF> anything except Signal, unless something goes seriously
 pF> sideways and people look to an alternative.

Perhaps Signal seems to have had a headstart in the market, and  
thus attained the necessary momentum to attract users. More  
people learned about it faster than any of the others.


 pF> Session looks nice, I wish there was a unc convention for
 pF> usernames so you could share your contacts more easily
 pF> than with a QR code.

People can exchange the "Your Session ID" string.

Session also supports "ONS" (Oxen Network System) name/alias,  
but I think that requires a payment.


 pF> There are some interesting concerns about AI features on
 pF> phones being able to read encrypted messages once they're
 pF> on the phone and being a weak link. Physical access to the
 pF> device usually means game over anyways, though - unless
 pF> there's a backdoor in AI assistants we don't know about.

Can anyone confirm if the locally received messages are stored  
encrypted? If stored decrypted, barring a session app access  
password, that would seem to be a concern.

The session faq https://getsession.org/faq  ..says about local  
messages:

"All of your messages are encrypted, and can only be decrypted
using the private key which is stored locally on your device.


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