“Welcome to this introduction to Conversations. It is gonna be a great introduction. It’s gonna be fabulous. Other instant messengers have fought Conversations for many years, but they couldn’t beat it. Just couldn’t do it. Total loosers. They’re all dead now. All the other messengers have failed. Forget WhatsApp, okay? Signal …total desaster. Threema is so bad, it’s not even a real messenger. It’s fake. Threema is a fake messenger. Converstations has got to be the best messenger in the world. It’s huge. OMEMO. You’ll love it. Best protocol. Tremendous. Absolutely fantastic. Nobody has messengers better than Conversations. This messenger is so big, you can even see it from the moon. And I am going to make you pay for it. It’s true. Important people tell me that Conversations is so great, it’s unbelievable. So great, it’s beautiful. Conversations is the best instant messenger that God ever created.”
conversations.im
Tag: apps
WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
​“(Tobias) Boelter reported the backdoor vulnerability to Facebook in April 2016, but was told that Facebook was aware of the issue, that it was ‘expected behaviour’ and wasn’t being actively worked on.”
www.theguardian.com”
Earlier, I posted two messages for my friends on Facebook. One with my Threema address, the other with the above quote and link to the article critical of Facebook’s conduct. Within hours, the latter had mysteriously disappeared from view. I don’t routinely use Facebook and now I know why: on this evidence, nobody gets to see much of what I post there, anyway…
“Corporate censorship is the process by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to disrupt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light.”
wikipedia.org
PhotoScan
“Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future.” Actually does what it says on the tin. Also simplifies the task of taking pictures of documents greatly.
www.google.com
K-9 Mail
K-9 for Android is one of the best email clients available on any platform today. This open source application implements support for many different protocols and comes with a host of useful features.
k9mail.github.io
Why I won’t recommend Signal anymore
​“We need to remember that we’re fighting not only against government surveillance, but also against corporate surveillance as well. We need ways to defend against this, and using corporate solutions that create a dependency on these solutions, even if the communications themselves are not readable to them, there’s still the issue of metadata, and of course general availability of Google’s services to Signal.” Sander Venema disagrees on strategy, not cryptography.
sandervenema.ch
Business Calendar 2
“The professional and versatile app for reliable, complex calendar management. Highly customizable and in perfect sync with Google.” No doubt about it, Business Calendar 2 is a great app for Android that I would not want to be without. Which, for me at least, makes it even more disappointing that time zone management still does not meet my expectations. Will we ever see a reliable implementation of multi-time zone events?
www.businesscalendar.de
Syncronisation of your calendar and contacts with services other than Google is easy using CalDAV-Sync and CardDAV-Sync, respectively.
Signal
“I am regularly impressed with the thought and care put into both the security and the usability of this app. It’s my first choice for an encrypted conversation.”
Bruce Schneier
Signal offers private messaging and calling in one simple app. It is both free and open source. Development is supported by community donations and grants. This means that there are no hidden strings attached. Use Signal as an alternative to WhatsApp or, better still, its replacement.
whispersystems.org