mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoGiving Up on Element & Matrix.orgxn--gckvb8fzb.comexternal-linkmessage-square136fedilinkarrow-up1254arrow-down115
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minus-squareeleitl@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·1 day agoIt is entirely insecure.
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 hours agoThe argument has always been, if when chat rooms are public, anyone can join and start logging the chats, encryption does nothing. It has the ability to connect over TLS, but that’s about it. I loved using it for its simplicity, except when using all the different flavours of nick registration (Q, NickServ, …).
minus-squareExFed@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·1 day agoNot when the entirety of your conversations are jargon and in-jokes! /s
minus-squareundrwater@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 hours agoDefine secure. You can run your own network.
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoxmpp isn’t. (Ok I get xmpp alone is but every modern client supports the same two encryption methods so judge for yourself)
Back to IRC we go…
It is entirely insecure.
The argument has always been, if when chat rooms are public, anyone can join and start logging the chats, encryption does nothing.
It has the ability to connect over TLS, but that’s about it.
I loved using it for its simplicity, except when using all the different flavours of nick registration (Q, NickServ, …).
Not when the entirety of your conversations are jargon and in-jokes!
/s
Define secure. You can run your own network.
xmpp isn’t.
(Ok I get xmpp alone is but every modern client supports the same two encryption methods so judge for yourself)