Reintroduction post!

[mattburgess@infosec.exchange]

Reintroduction post!

Since Bluesky picked up millions of users last year, I have neglected Mastodon somewhat. This year, I'm going to make an effort to post and interact more on here too

I'm Matt, a security reporter based in Europe at WIRED. I'm often covering cybercrime, privacy, surveillance internet freedom, and more.

I'm always interested in hearing what we should be covering and keen to focus more this year on security issues in Europe (and the uncoupling of the continent and the US).

I'm also contactable on Signal using: mattburgess.20 and on email on matt_burgess@wired.com

[clemens@social.multiverset.net]

@mattburgess hello again, Matt!

Speaking of Signal. My family and friends are being more and more interested in migrating away from US-based software, but that makes Signal a bit of a difficult sell. Do you have some good strong arguments up your sleeve?

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@clemens My take at least is something like that Signal, yes, is out of the US; but it's designed such that *this fact is largely inconsequential*. Strong end-to-end encryption without plaintext fallback, reproducible builds, source code available for review and heavily scrutinized by a large variety of people. Yes they do gain access to (fairly minimal) metadata, but so do pretty much all alternatives which are *much* less thorough in their security and privacy stance.

@mattburgess

[renchap@oisaur.com]

@mattburgess nice to see you back here Matt! Feel free to reach out if you want to know things about Mastodon and what we are building in this challenging times

[crossgolf_rebel@moppels.bar]

@mattburgess@infosec.exchange If you use both networks, you should consider #Friendica as your access point.
Friendica can serve both networks in one interface, which would certainly suit you.
For details, you can contact @feb@loma.ml

[mina@berlin.social]

@mattburgess

Welcome back!

[leanderlindahl@mastodon.social]

@clemens @mattburgess I was almost about to comment on Signal from Mountain View, California too 🙂

I find Delta is a solid choice and easy to get started with for non techies (my family). Element (Matrix) is probably the most popular feature rich choice, but a bit more fiddly to set up and more like Slack and Mattermost...

But I'd like to know why no one ever mentions Olvid and Ginlo in the "buyeuropean" lineups. And I'd like to know why they and Threema haven't seized the moment...

[leanderlindahl@mastodon.social]

@mattburgess
welcome (back) 👋

[ml@social.mitexleo.one]

@mattburgess Welcome back 👋

[eugestshirley@m.ai6yr.org]

@mattburgess
Welcome back

[sikorsky78@infosec.exchange]

@mattburgess Hi Matt!

[darren@c.im]

@mattburgess As a Wired subscriber, I am glad you're here, Matt!

[mattburgess@infosec.exchange]

@mkj @clemens I think I agree with mkj here. I think it's hard to overlook Signal being the gold standard and their public position—and leadership—have always been very consistent on what they are building and not building (no desire to integrate AI, etc). They've threatened to leave countries that have proposed to compromise encryption and I don't have any doubt they would take the hard step if required.

[mattburgess@infosec.exchange]

@renchap Thanks Renaud!

[nelfan@gotosocial.social]

@mattburgess
There's now a reliable software on the #Fediverse to communicate at the same time on the #activitypub and the #atproto that is called #Wafrn : https://wafrn.net/

[cenobyte@mastodon.thirring.org]

@mattburgess Good to see you here!

[mattburgess@infosec.exchange]

@crossgolf_rebel Thanks, I'll take a look! Definitely going to be using both, so open to options to combine everything. I did try Opensea at one point

[mattburgess@infosec.exchange]

@mina thanks!

[mattburgess@infosec.exchange]

@ml thanks for having me!

[mattburgess@infosec.exchange]

@EugestShirley cheers!