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Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging (techcrunch.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by Morys@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I currently use Telegram for my friends and family, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the UK Government is either reaching agreement for backdoors with messaging services, or is trying its hardest to.

I'm also on Element/Matrix. Before I try to get my contacts to join me on there, should I be aware of any privacy issues or is that a good place to head?

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I think at this point it would be funnier to just use something obviously unsecure like discord but share your public key with the other user and then send encrypted text.

[–] KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I used to do something like this before Signal became a thing. We used to use OTR via the Pidgin OTR plugin to send encrypted messages over Google Hangouts. Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure Pidgin supports Discord, so you could use the exact same setup to achieve what you described.

It was pretty funny to check the official Hangouts web client and see nonsensical text being sent.

[–] Gumus@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

I guess a vencord plugin for that wouldn't be that difficult to do