We were surprised to hear today that Forbes.ru (a subsidiary of the global Forbes brand it seems) recently published an article quoting an expert recommending to use #deltachat on the backdrop of restrictions of Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord and Viber in Russian networks.
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На фоне учащающейся недоступности самых популярных у россиян мессенджеров Forbes опросил экспертов, чем их можно заменить. Они советуют использовать мессенджеры, поддерживающие сквозное шифрование и децентрализованное хранение данных. А также установАнастасия Гаврилюк (Forbes.ru)
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Bold?
To recommend a state based chat service? (Deltachat uses mail servers, which are gubermint surveilled).
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in reply to CapitalB • • •DeltaChat *can* be used with mail servers that are government surveilled, but that is not at all the default path that users are exposed to.
Chatmail servers are run by volunteers across the world and even if one was run by a malicious admin they still couldn't learn anything useful about you except your IP address you used to send the message and a recipient address that could be on another server somewhere else on the planet they can't surveil
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Does it use state controlled and checked mail servers?
Do you know Schengen and 5eyes?
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