Privacy

33499 readers

399 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

is Matrix/Riot.im really private? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

45 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I haven't hosted my own matrix server yet. is it safe to join an instance? I don't really know how private that would be. the question is when I signup/login would I be giving out my IP? is the metadata private? sorry for asking this, I'm just a bit paranoid

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

There is federated network and good client. Linphone is an example. Jitsi (not Jitsi Meet) is other.

You can send messages to any SIP account using SIMPLE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Weeeelll, technically. But there is no where near the same ecosystem as for XMPP. Also I don't think there is e2ee for SIMPLE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

There is, it is called LIME.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Every business here use SIP-Phones (calls only though), mostly with propietary implementations but is something very extended at business and institutions level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yes I am aware that there are a lot of SIP phones, but are you seriously comparing that to XMPP? That is like saying WhatsApp is the same as snail-mail :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Jejejejejeje.

BTW, LIME is specific from Linphone though.

https://wiki.linphone.org/xwiki/wiki/public/view/Lib/Features/LIME/

I make the comparison because they don't add modifications to the protocol itself. These closed networks use to be compatible with any SIP public infraestructure in comparison what people do with XMPP which even being connected, there could be a lot of incompatible things.

I consider SIP and SIMPLE simplicity a feature in comparison with other protocols.

BTW, SIP can be used P2P as well as SIMPLE. If I remember use to be mostly that with STUN help and a SIP Proxy Server for registering users and notifications.