From: Chris Vine <vine35792468@gmail.com>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Diversification [ branched from Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile]
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:24:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191023002427.f91e23fa3475223c648487b4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <907270af-1f2f-42f3-ec36-047fdd48a74f@posteo.de>
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 21:23:32 +0200
Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> wrote:
[snip]
> The reason however, why I have only ever used Riot with one person is,
> surprise surprise, that most people are not willing to sacrifice the
> tiniest bit of comfort, for enhanced security. This one person I used it
> with tried to get 2 more people on board, who were even less tech-savy
> and whom I did not have the chance of helping directly, to get things
> set up and so we remained 1-on-1 on Riot.IM.
>
> Let me explain further:
>
> To verify another person's device, one has to exchange information via a
> second trusted channel. That information is a sequence of icons being
> shown. If they are the same, that the other person sends you via the
> second trusted channel, you can reasonably assume, that the device you
> are communicating with is under their control.
>
> When it comes to the step of exchanging information about what icons are
> displayed, most people will close the app and say "it's too
> complicated", because they do not understand it ("Huh? How strange! Why
> I have to do that? Are icons secure?") or do not want to do anything in
> order to have security. They are not willing to invest as much as 5min
> of effort, to have encrypted chat. What makes matters worse is, that
> when you use Riot.IM in the browser, it might happen, that every time
> you log in, the other person has to re-verify your device. Guess what
> people will do when facing that workflow …
This is a public mailing list, and any replacement of it is going to be
a mailing-list-alike. Why do they (or chats) need to be encrypted or
have the sender verified? No one should be posting sensitive personal
information here so I don't understand the point of it. Lack of
understanding of (or disagreement with) the purpose may be what is
holding your idea back. If you want to set up private mailing lists or
chat servers, fair enough, but that's not what this is.
Discord seems a reasonably popular chat medium with a bridge to IRC and
discourse seems reasonably popular as a web based mailing-list-ish
medium with a somewhat more vibey feel than traditional mailing lists.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-22 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-20 6:10 Diversification [ branched from Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile] Todor Kondić
2019-10-20 6:14 ` John Cowan
2019-10-21 6:35 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-10-21 13:45 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2019-10-23 6:16 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2019-10-23 6:27 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-10-23 6:48 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-23 10:37 ` Chris Vine
2019-10-23 11:25 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-23 12:33 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-23 13:47 ` tomas
2019-10-23 14:10 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-23 19:09 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2019-10-23 19:26 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-23 19:19 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-10-24 1:01 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-10-24 9:19 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-24 9:35 ` mailmam, web bridge, forum, p2p (was: Diversification) Amirouche Boubekki
2019-10-24 12:30 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-24 14:15 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-10-24 16:39 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-10-24 23:42 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-10-25 1:39 ` mailmam, web bridge, forum, p2p Mike Gerwitz
2019-10-26 7:48 ` tomas
2019-10-26 10:35 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-10-26 11:34 ` tomas
2019-10-27 4:50 ` Mike Gerwitz
2019-10-27 5:32 ` Mike Gerwitz
2019-10-27 8:50 ` tomas
2019-10-27 8:36 ` tomas
2019-10-27 14:26 ` Keith Wright
2019-10-27 19:28 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-10-25 6:08 ` mailmam, web bridge, forum, p2p (was: Diversification) pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-25 6:23 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-10-26 4:31 ` mailmam, web bridge, forum, p2p Mike Gerwitz
2019-10-26 9:35 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-26 11:31 ` tomas
2019-10-24 13:32 ` mailmam, web bridge, forum, p2p (was: Diversification) tomas
2019-10-24 15:03 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-10-24 15:12 ` tomas
2019-10-24 16:35 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-10-26 8:04 ` tomas
2019-10-26 9:42 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-26 11:31 ` tomas
2019-10-25 11:30 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2019-10-25 12:53 ` Nala Ginrut
2020-09-05 6:15 ` Diversification [ branched from Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile] Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
2020-09-05 11:50 ` Web development Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-09-05 13:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-28 11:04 ` mailman web interface (was: Diversification) pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-07-08 12:32 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-09-05 6:21 ` mailman web interface Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
2020-09-05 7:53 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-09-05 13:32 ` Joshua Branson
2019-10-23 13:43 ` Diversification [ branched from Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile] tomas
2019-10-23 17:39 ` Chris Vine
2019-10-23 19:58 ` Mailman web interface [was: Re: Diversification] pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-23 20:02 ` Diversification [ branched from Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile] pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-26 8:14 ` tomas
2019-10-26 9:03 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-26 11:26 ` tomas
2019-10-26 13:02 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-10-26 15:23 ` tomas
2019-10-26 16:47 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-26 17:09 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
[not found] ` <874kzslwq0.fsf@elephly.net>
2019-10-28 15:41 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-23 13:45 ` tomas
2019-10-20 8:07 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-20 8:08 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-22 18:47 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-22 19:23 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-10-22 20:51 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-10-22 23:24 ` Chris Vine [this message]
2019-10-23 0:57 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-10-23 6:44 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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