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Briar - secure p2p group communications (briarproject.org)

submitted 8 months ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Briar is a messaging app designed to be used by groups of people to allow for secure and censorship resistant communications.

This technically isn't self hosted in the strictest sense but I think it is still relevant.

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[–] leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Seems pretty similar to Jami except that it lacks the iOS and desktop clients that Jami already has.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't use Jami. It is a security nightmare and unreliable.

[–] leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could you link me some resources for that? I may need something to demonstrate that to others.

[+] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My personal experience

Also they haven't had a security audit

[–] leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lack of audit is not great I agree. I can see from a basic web search that security is an issue but I'm not sure 'nightmare' is warranted. The lack of audit seems to be main focus of concern and I'd say thats a judgement call for each person depending on threat model. I was hoping for something more conclusive than that. Its certainly adequate for a more privacy-centric way of communicating than an app that doesn't cater for Apple users at all.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

I'm never going to recommend something that I can't get to work reliability. Also the lack of a security audit is a major deal breaker.

Communications is one of those things that needs to be absolutely solid.