Ask HN: Are there any truly private chat apps? If you have to input email, phone or any identifying info to use - it's not private. I'm thinking about a messaging service that generates a key for you to use for identification and encryption. All data is encrypted on the client side. Everything is tied to a single key that the user is responsible for keeping safe to access their chats. Does something like this exist? |
Briar is end to end encrypted without any other methodology to identify you besides the meta information (briar hash), so it's as private as it can get. But, it's painful to do a handshake, both peers need to be online at the same time.
Encryption is a cat and mouse game that shifts the focus from personal rights to technological prowess.
Of course the problem of law is harder and less fun to discuss, but eventually is the only path to true privacy.
40+ digits good luck with that I doubt there's many on this site that would even know of the names of the software needed for that and far fewer outside of a 3 digit organization that has the time to dedicate a high end computer for the job.
It's just easier to get the information via social eng means or a $5 hammer to the knee caps.
It creates a 66-digit alphanumeric number for user identification when you create a new account.
Even if not entered into a formal record, properly private, or logged by higher command and saved for X days in case of need for review.
I can believe it's secure from outside hacking, I question whether it's private w/out some form of logging baked in.
(classic!!!!)