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Technology@beehaw.org · 8 months ago

FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared.

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FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared.

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Technology@beehaw.org · 8 months ago

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With FireChat, people were free to communicate and coordinate with each other without the message having to first filter through someone's data center. Why did the app shut down without notice?

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With Apple you get tracking and surveillance built-in. The Android world has clean custom-ROMS.
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/keeping-your-data-from-apple-is-harder-than-expected
https://proton.me/blog/iphone-privacy
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/accused-raccoon-malware-developer-fled-ukraine-after-russian-invasion/
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  How did Firechat circumvent this?
  
  Or did they just not? Or we’ll never know?

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