73
The Perfect Private Messenger (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
51 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

What's the closest thing we have to a perfect private messanger?

In my mind the perfect private messanger is both completely secure, and also completely anonymous.

All the mainstream messengers can pretty much ensure the contents of the message will not be revealed....but that is not good enough. I want to be able to deploy and establish a completely anonymous AND private channel of communication on a dime without having to jump through extreme operational security hoops.

Does it really exist?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 1 point 9 months ago

I host one but the more I analyze privacy implications the worse it looks.

Only you and maybe 10 other people will connect to that server's IP, port 5222. This makes it very easy to track your group by telco operators and people who have access to their logs.

Even if you use a VPN or Tor at all times, most of your other users likely don't.

And the domain is registered to someone's name too, although I know this can be worked around.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent