Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoMolly - a better signalmolly.imexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1161arrow-down135
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minus-square👁️👄👁️@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·edit-211 months ago of a popular XMPP client 10k downloads for a hideous outdated app is popular now?
minus-squareu_tamtam@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoFYI that’s an app that’s used by the German police and in several other “sensitive” contexts where users won’t just pull it from the play store :) ISIS even had their own fork at a point.
minus-squareu_tamtam@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agohttps://gultsch.social/@daniel/109828650796048124
minus-square👁️👄👁️@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agothat website is broken beyond belief, I can’t confirm anything talking about the police site, not the mastodon link
minus-squareu_tamtam@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agoIt really took me a second to figure out: https://www.bundespolizei.de/Web/DE/Service/Mediathek/Jahresberichte/jahresbericht_2020_file.pdf , click on the PDF link, hop to page 48. But even without that, do you really believe that the developer of the app, who’s making a living of it, would commit financial suicide by lying so openly about such a trivial thing? Either way, with or without Conversations, XMPP is used by millions of users daily: https://www.rst.software/blog/22-companies-using-xmpp-and-ejabberd-to-build-instant-messaging-services https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/
minus-square👁️👄👁️@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoHuh interesting, I actually had no idea those big apps used XMPP. Would it be easy for them to add e2ee if they wanted to?
10k downloads for a hideous outdated app is popular now?
FYI that’s an app that’s used by the German police and in several other “sensitive” contexts where users won’t just pull it from the play store :) ISIS even had their own fork at a point.
Source?
https://gultsch.social/@daniel/109828650796048124
that website is broken beyond belief, I can’t confirm anything
talking about the police site, not the mastodon link
It really took me a second to figure out: https://www.bundespolizei.de/Web/DE/Service/Mediathek/Jahresberichte/jahresbericht_2020_file.pdf , click on the PDF link, hop to page 48. But even without that, do you really believe that the developer of the app, who’s making a living of it, would commit financial suicide by lying so openly about such a trivial thing? Either way, with or without Conversations, XMPP is used by millions of users daily: https://www.rst.software/blog/22-companies-using-xmpp-and-ejabberd-to-build-instant-messaging-services
https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/
Huh interesting, I actually had no idea those big apps used XMPP. Would it be easy for them to add e2ee if they wanted to?