lemm.ee

-5 points

1 year ago

of a popular XMPP client

10k downloads for a hideous outdated app is popular now?

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u_tamtam@programming.dev

2 points

1 year ago

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.

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1 point

1 year ago

Source?

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https://gultsch.social/@daniel/109828650796048124

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u_tamtam@programming.dev

1 point

1 year ago

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1 point

1 year ago

that website is broken beyond belief, I can’t confirm anything

talking about the police site, not the mastodon link

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u_tamtam@programming.dev

2 points

1 year ago

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/

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0 points

1 year ago

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?

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