A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
Group chats rule the world
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups. Being part of the right group chat can feel like having a peek at the kitchen of a restaurant but instead of food, messy ideas and gossip fly about in real time, get mixed, remixed, discarded, polished before they show up in a prepared fashion in public.
The Trump Administration Group Chat, Signal: The Coke of Secure Messaging, Transparency Versus Security
The Trump administration’s Signal gaffe raises fascinating questions about secure messaging and the trade-off inherent in transparency.
The Ridiculous Engineering Of Chat
Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again
The triumphant return of aimless digital chatter.
WhatsApp class action alleges Meta, third parties accessed private messages without consent
A new class action lawsuit alleges WhatsApp messages are not private.
The fall... and rise and rise and rise of chat networks
From CompuServe to Telegram, chat has come a long way—and it's just getting started.
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort
Max Cometh: What The Blocking Of WhatsApp, Telegram Means For Millions Of Russians
WhatsApp has long been the most popular messaging app for Russians, followed closely by Telegram. This week, officials took major steps to cut them off and make them unusable—part of a long-running, two-pronged effort to control the information Russians access online.
Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT
The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges against Trump's political opponents.
proto instant messenger
AIM-inspired group chat on the AT Protocol. Real-time chat rooms, presence, away messages — a safe space for community.
proto instant messenger
AIM-inspired group chat on the AT Protocol. Real-time chat rooms, presence, away messages — a safe space for community.
Chat Control & Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.
After Snowden’s whistleblowing in 2013, large parts of the internet became encrypted, enabling private and secure communication. Not everyone has welcomed this change. Most notably, the FBI and other U.S. government agencies have fought what is often called the “crypto wars”, the war on encryption. In recent years, they have been joined by the European Commission. Under the slogan “what about the children,” they try to introduce total mass surveillance of all EU citizens — first through the proposed Chat Control legislation, and later via the Going Dark and ProtectEU initiatives. The goal is to legally mandate spy tools on every European smartphone and computer. The forces behind these efforts have turned out to be American tech companies and intelligence agencies.
Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, But Google Didn’t Know What It Had
Everyone has been talking about Slack lately. The chat app, which is primarily aimed at offices and productivity, is simple, well designed, fun to use,...
Don't be a meat proxy
Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back: