The Perfect Private Messenger (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by hereforawhile@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What's the closest thing we have to a perfect private messanger?

In my mind the perfect private messanger is both completely secure, and also completely anonymous.

All the mainstream messengers can pretty much ensure the contents of the message will not be revealed....but that is not good enough. I want to be able to deploy and establish a completely anonymous AND private channel of communication on a dime without having to jump through extreme operational security hoops.

Does it really exist?

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[-] notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Simplex works async. You might be thinking of briar

[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I don't understand how every person responding to me has missed that I said "start chatting" not "continue chatting" but I will be idiot-proofing my lemmy comments from here on out, it's exhausting

[-] notarobot@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Such a high horse for such a tiny person.

On simplex you can "start chatting" asynchronously
You didn't say "start chatting". You said "start sending messages" which is something you do with people every day
"Start chatting" and "continue chatting" do not mean what you imply the mean. There is no distinction between them as "the absolute first time" and "all the others". I can start talking again with a friend I haven't talked to in months. I can also start talking about a previous topi (" me and my girlfriend started talking once again about having children")

So... You know... Maybe get off the horse? It's not that everyone around you is an idiot is that you failed to communicate... Or you are an idiot

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