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Session: A Private Messenger That Doesn't Need Phone Number

Session: An Open Source Private Messenger That Doesn't Need Your Phone Number

https://itsfoss.com/session-messenger/

Brief: Our open source software highlight of the week is Session. It is a fork of another increasingly popular private messenger Signal. Session doesn’t even need your phone number to operate. Session: A private messenger in true sense Privacy concerned people are always in the search of an ultimate

Session: An Open Source Private Messenger That Doesn't Need Your Phone Number

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dirtfindr

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The fact that there is no mandatory phone reg. puts Session above Signal. But Session is still very dicey:

www.getsession.org is a CloudFlare site, which indicates that the staff on that project lack some basic knowledge about privacy - or they just don't care. (note that Signal also uses CloudFlare)
the developers have some kind of alt-right tendencies: https://chaos.social/@laufi/103825791713996438 The problem is not just ethical but conservatives inherently do not value privacy. They value money very much. This is a bad combination for a platform that wants to be privacy-centric.
they put a lot of energy into having a professional appearance. This is consistent with corporations with profit-driven intentions and atypical of charitible free software projects. Their org chart has everyone's photo (not characteristic of privacy advocates) and every single means of contact of every staff member is through Microsoft or Twitter.
website has links to privacy abusers (Facebook, MS Github, Twitter) and not a single link to any social networking service that self-respecting privacy proponents can use.
their email address traverses Google's servers and has no PGP key.
their project is managed on Microsoft Github.

BTW @AgreeableLandscape, itsfoss.com is not a good site to publicize; it's also jailed in CloudFlare walled garden (thus calling into question the extent to which that site genuinely respects freedom).

The only useful effect of Session is that it serves as a PR jab at Signal for requiring phones. And if it helps divide or shrink the Signal community that's a good thing.

k_o_t

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It really bothers me that not needing a phone number for registration is now a feature, and not a basic requirement for anything claiming to be anonymous/private...

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