Signal ist gerade die meistgeladene App in den Niederlanden!
#Signal ist die meistgeladene App in den #Niederlande|n. Die datenschutzfreundliche #Messenger-App verzeichnet einen enormen Anstieg an Downloads und führt die Charts auf iOS und Android an.
Steigendes #Datenschutzbewusstsein treibt die Nutzung. Expert.innen sehen wachsende Skepsis gegenüber #BigTech und ein zunehmendes Interesse an unabhängigen, verschlüsselten Alternativen. (1/2)
#USPolitik könnte eine Rolle spielen. Mit der Rückkehr von #DonaldTrump wächst in #Europa die Sorge über den Einfluss amerikanischer #TechKonzerne und deren Datenschutzpraktiken.
#Signal bleibt kompromisslos bei #Verschlüsselung: Die Organisation lehnt staatliche Eingriffe ab und droht mit dem Rückzug aus Märkten, die ihre Sicherheitsstandards gefährden.
https://eicker.TV #Technik #Medien #Politik #Wirtschaft (2/2)
»#Signal President #MeredithWhittaker calls out #agenticAI as having 'profound' #security and #privacy issues.« https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/?eicker.news #tech #media
»#Signal is the #numberone downloaded app in the #Netherlands — a 958% rise since December.« https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/02/signal-is-the-number-one-downloaded-app-in-the-netherlands-but-why/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
»#Signal is the #numberone downloaded app in the #Netherlands — a 958% rise since December.« https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/02/signal-is-the-number-one-downloaded-app-in-the-netherlands-but-why/?eicker.news #tech #media
Elon Musk blockiert auf XTwitter Links zu Signal.
#ElonMusk|s #XTwitter blockiert derzeit #Links zu Signal.me, einer Domain des verschlüsselten Messengers #Signal, die für direkte #Kontaktaufnahmen genutzt wird.
Nutzer.innen können keine „Signal.me“-Links mehr in Posts, DMs oder ihrem Profil teilen – stattdessen erhalten sie #Fehlermeldungen oder #Warnhinweise. (1/3)
»#Russia Is Targeting #UkrainianSoldiers’ #Signal Accounts, Google Warns: Google says Russia increased its targeting of encrypted apps like Signal as Ukraine ramped up its counteroffensive.« https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/02/19/russia-hacks-ukrainian-soldiers-signal-accounts-google-warns/?eicker.news #tech #media
»#ElonMusk’s #XTwitter #blocks #links to #Signal, the encrypted messaging service: Signal has been a primary method of communication for #federalworkers looking to blow the whistle on #DOGE.« https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-signal?eicker.news #tech #media
Gute Darstellung des Signal-Messengers
Kein How-to-Guide, sondern eine kurze Beschreibung der Besonderheiten des Signal-Messengers für technisch weniger bewanderte Nutzerinnen und Nutzer (Haughey, 2025). Bevor ich dieses Blogpost gelesen hatte, wusste ich nicht, dass Signal (die Stiftung, die für die Software und Hardware des Dienstes verantwortlich ist) nicht einmal Daten über Teilnehmer:innen an Chats und Gruppenchats entschlüsseln kann. Der Service weigert sich also nicht nur Metadaten über Kommunikation herauszugeben, er kann es gar nicht.
Es wirkt vielleicht paranoid, die eigene Kommunikation vor jeder möglichen Einsichtnahme schützen zu wollen. Aber angesichts von autoritären Politiker:innen, die im Bündnis mit monopolistischen Digitalkonzernen handeln, ist es wichtig ist, an alle Eventualitäten zu denken. Außerdem machen sich, wenn solche Techniken nicht massenhaft verwendet werden, genau die Leute verdächtig, die vor allem Verfolgung befürchten müssen.
Ich selbst verwende Signal auf meinem Mobiltelefon mit /e/OS, also einem weitgehend „Google-freien“, auf Datenschutz ausgerichteten Android. Ich lade die App von einem Repository für Open Source Software (F-Droid mit dem Guardian Project-Repository), also nicht von Google Play. Trotzdem bin ich nicht ganz sicher, dass meine Kommunikation über Signal nicht beobachtet werden kann. Mit rein technischen Mitteln lässt sich Sicherheit nicht herstellen, weil man die Möglichkeiten in Kommunikation einzudringen nicht alle voraussehen und ausschließen kann. Ein Restrisiko bleibt, aber ich versuche es so klein wie möglich zu halten.
Haughey, M. (2025, February 3). A guide to using Signal for government workers. A Whole Lotta Nothing. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-guide-to-using-signal-for-government-workers/Over #Signal, dat is op dit moment nog een stichting in de VS en ik meende ergens gehoord te hebben dat de stichting naar Zwitserland zou verhuizen, maar ik kan dit nergens meer vinden, iemand enig idee?
Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für die Allgemeinheit 
Teilen erbeten 
#DSGVO #TDDDG #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung #Sicherheitspaket
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Appel #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz
auch als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/p9zG2Ebvsafu29izzg+HaOzq/
#Signal #Lifehack. When you register as new user, Signal asks you to provide "a" phone number where it can send a confirmation code to finalise the setup.
Know that it asks for "a" phone number that can receive messages. It doesn't have to be YOUR phone number. This is not a new feature, it has always been like that. I registered my Signal account using the phone number of a prepaid SIM in a cheap burner phone. I have never used that number since.
The #KrononautMoon Project is an ongoing series of community experiments to contact #TimeTravelers — as "in-person", but more likely via #quantum #signal. The next attempt is coming up soon on 14 Mar 2025 — under the #TotalLunarEclipse — wherever you are. These outreaches are sometimes referred to as "landing receptions", but call them or redesign them however you like. Following is a brief, all-true #chronology of such #events, going back 40+ years. The excerpt is from our detailed #article on Medium.com.
❛❛ #Future #intelligences would have the necessary transport #technology that is not yet existent in our #world. To date, there have been 5 recorded attempts of this method, with the most famous one devised by the late #theoretical #physicist #StephenHawking, in #Cambridge #UK on 2009 Jun 28.
Hawking referred to his get-together as a “reception”—what we now think of as a version type 1.0. His champagne toast to “tourists from the future” was, by no means, not the first of the prototypes, however, because it was staged years after 3 similar experimental attempts — stationed in different #countries and unrelated to each other. The professor’s cheeky soirée occurred four years after a rollicking party that was thrown for “Inhabitants of the Future” at Forrest Place, #Perth #AU, on 2005 Mar 31. Then, a few months later, an equally festive #TimeTraveler #Convention was hosted at #MIT — The #Massachusetts Institute of Technology, #Cambridge #MA #US, on 2005 May 07. These elaborate productions were preceded by a full two decades, back when a group identifying itself as the #Krononauts assembled in #Baltimore #MD #US (alt. spelling: #Chrononauts). That seminal event, which was covered by a #NewYorkTimes reporter, happened at a downtown #bookstore, under the light of a #FullMoon, and a multi-planetary #syzygy, on 1982 Mar 09.
More recently, in the spring of 2023, a dogged #podcaster for TheLastArchive.com and Pushkin.fm, published a riveting and droll #audio recounting of Baltimore’s Krononauts gathering, and then gave the concept a uniquely personal #experimental spin, noting the time and #GPS #coordinates. The effort successfully demonstrated that a single individual can attempt extra-temporal #contact on one’s own, equipped with little more than a #public #library #bench, and can meaningfully contribute to the corpus of #Community #Time #Travel #Research. ❜❜
On 2025 Mar 14, join your #friends, fellow #Mastodonians, and #TimeTravelers for an evening of #peace, #love, and #cosmic #tranquility, wherever you are.
https://Medium.com/write-under-the-moon/on-the-night-of-the-total-lunar-eclipse-6eec94750f4e 2024 Aug 15 https://TheLastArchive.com/season-4/episode-6-the-krononauts 2023 https://KronoMoon.org 
#MoonOverMastodon
While #Signal might be the easiest for your friends and family to set up, some seasoned techies recommend #Matrix and #XMPP as the better alternatives to #WhatsApp, since they're both #decentralized and federated true end-to-end encrypted messengers. I'd say, delve into all options and choose what suits you best.
By popular demand, a single post to boost global switch day across multiple platforms on February 1st 2025.
For those who can no longer get behind Musk or Meta's new policies and feel like switching (e.g. from #Whatsapp to #Signal, from #Instagram to #Pixelfed or from #X to #Mastodon) I made you some graphics to use freely in communicating with your contacts.
Let’s lead by example 
Monday is January's #FullMoon — the #WolfMoon.
It's now exactly 2 #lunar cycles to the #TotalLunarEclipse on 2025 Mar 14, the Night of the #KrononautMoon, and our invitation to #TimeTravelers to come visit or send us a #quantum #signal. (To be followed by 2 more Total Lunar Eclipses in the next year!)
Here's our extended version #Checklist for the Night of the Krononaut Moon, a celebration of Time Travel. (Original post located here: https://me.dm/@KronoMoon/113610202533882675).
Coming our way next on 2025 Mar 14 #UTC 07:00, 2 months from now.
#Observe the #Moon & #stars that night, wherever & however you like, with friends & colleagues or on your own. Local #times flexible.
#Connect with the #cosmos & with your #past & #future #selves. Send a #signal to #beings in the #future(s). #Candles & safe #campfires are good; #music & #dancing are good; #radio #wave #antennas are good. Be experimental!
Click & share many #photos of the #Moon, with you (and your #family / #pets) under it — what we call a #Moonsie — and any nearby #UFOs. Share your #images with @KronoMoon & @KronoMoonPhotos.
#Enjoy a deepened #moment of #peace, #love, #authenticity & #meaning, with other #Mastodonians around the #world & #beyond — wherever you are.
2025 Mar 14 
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