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.
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What's the difference between Molly and LibreSignal, for Signal as a company? Shouldn't Moxie ask them to stop using their infrastructure like they did with LibreSignal? Maybe Signal is not aware of its existence?
Anyway, looks promising. A really nice fork
I'm also interested on understanding if Moxie and company would eventually request molly to cease connecting to signal servers. Same thing as with signal-gcm-less. I don't understand why they can still connect to signal servers, since Moxie clearly wants no other clients, than the binaries provided by signal connecting. I don't know if this would last only until Moxie or signal guys realize, or only while these clients don't reach certain popularity... Who knows... Moxie's decisions make signal look like not open source, but who knows, maybe those 2 clients, molly and signal-gcm-less got some approval from signal?
If i recall correctly, Moxie was primarily frustrated by libre-signal because it was using signal name. He was also frustrated with custom clients, but he should see this as an improvement if he was being genuine.
I had the same query as well. I don't know if it has any direct relation to LibreSignal, since it was abandoned sometime back. But, both aims to remove dependency on Google components.
https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android#disclaimer
This project is NOT sponsored by Signal Messenger LLC or Signal Foundation.
As someone who has been using Signal, and previously TextSecure for almost 10 years, Moxie’s attitude is abhorrent and counter-intuitive. I wasn’t aware of how bad Signal’s privacy model was as it was worlds better than any other option back in 2015(in terms of security, not functionality) and I have not heard cries for an alternative until recently. I just downloaded Session and will promote it moving forward. Does anyone know an alternative to Signal for encrypted local storage of traditional SMS messages?
am interested aswell, really want my messenger to be named molly tbh
i'm confused by this statement in the readme:
Back in 2018...But this option was removed with the introduction of full-disk encryption on Android.
android doesn't use FDE - it uses file-based encryption (FBE). it used to use FDE but hasn't since android 9. my point being that FDE existed first and has been phased out so it already existed in 2018 and was introduced waaaay earlier. so is this a typo in the readme or am i totally missing something?
Yeah, that's a bit bugging. Checking Signal commits could give a clear idea about this.
I prefer Session because it routes traffic through ~~TOR~~.
Edit: I stand corrected.
It doesn't route traffic through Tor, but through their own similar network called LokiNet.