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Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users
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I still dream of a keyboard that encrypts all messages regardless of the application being used. Like you type and then select the message, a pop up menu lets you encrypt the message using the code that you have chosen with somebody.
The other person receives the message directly unscrambled otherwise this implementation is DOA
OpenKeychain has an implementation like this (not 100%) maybe that fits your use case?
https://www.openkeychain.org/
Look up oversec.io
It basically uses android accessibility features to both encrypt and decrypt messages.
I couldnt find the source code. is it foss?
https://github.com/oversecio/oversec
It was last updated 7 years ago.
So it's open source but outdated.
It is a bit tedious but works: https://fdroid.gitlab.io/jekyll-fdroid/packages/com.amnesica.kryptey/
Edit: Just saw that the last update was 3 years ago, just keep that in mind. I think for some situations it is still useful and can be used, as the encryption and key-exchange seems to be solid.
Pretty sure I read stories in the past of Google or someone like them banning people who were sending pre encrypted messages over one of their chat services.
wow so they were reading every single message, amazing
A computer was anyway. These services arent necessarily reading our messages personally, but the algorithms parse them for ad placements or whatever, and it probably got flagged as being unreadable.
Edit: Some services that arent intending to be secure chat might not like the idea of encrypted content on their system either. What is it? What are they now harboring which wasn't their intent at all? Like if you made a lemmy community and only had encrypted messages on it, a mod from the server might have something to say about it.
They still ban you now and then, if you encrypyt to their drive.
Oversec is like that, but IIRC it doesn't work correctly on the latest versions of android