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Jack Dorsey’s New App Just Hit a Very Embarrassing Security Snag

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Jack Dorsey’s New App Just Hit a Very Embarrassing Snag

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Meshtastic with venture capital.
- which is ironic considering Meshtastic is better than this shit tbh. VC just hard forked it and set it down the great path to enshittification
fuck anything jack dorsey touches.
If it runs through a Bluetooth mesh network, wouldn’t that mean you would need a substantial userbase for this to be viable whatsoever unless you are physically near the people you want to message?
- Yes. Which isn't a deal-breaker. But definitely a limiter in application. Something like this or Briar would be useful for example on large marches or public protests. Though maybe not this with apparently how insecure and poorly thought out it is. Which I suppose is on brand for Dorsey.
God hates people who abuse a security vulnerability disclosure to write a shitty clickbait article, and there's an extra special place in hell for those who mention a name that's cool to hate in the title to bring more clicks.
These are the founding principles of my new religion. We meet at fridays. Bring your own cookies...
Dorsey's new open source messaging app, Bitchat Bluetooth-based
Does that already exist? https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/#briar I'm not sure how "decentralized" it is, but it is probably at least somewhat decentralized.
- Bit chat
  Or
  Bitch @
  
  Bitch @
  100%
- Briar is Android only. Bitchat is an iOS app (may have an Android port in the future though, I think).
Reticulum works over alternative networks.
Wasn't this what FireChat was?
- Yes, but that was proprietary.

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