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So... why not contribute to Matrix? Or why would anyone get this instead of Swiss-made Threema? Which was audited, has a web version (even if it's super crappy), has contact discovery, and is open source. I can not find a single advantage of Teleguard (even the name, it just reminds me of Telegram) over either Matrix or Threema. Or perhaps Wire if you don't care about Amazon handling your data. The faq for "why use this" says it uses the best crypto ever: salsa20. That isn't better or worse than aes in terms of security and it's also missing a few components (surely they haven't reinvented digital signatures using a stream cipher). And they say it complies with the law, like okay yeah that sounds pretty standard. Frankly, it looks shady. No profit model, inconsistent text styles, weird reasons given for why it should be better, a brand name whose abbreviation conflicts with an established competitor (seems like a throwaway name), no source code / f-droid release, handful of downloads on Google Play Store, and claiming with a straight face that literally no user data is stored - what, does it not store incoming chat messages until my device comes online? It just isn't true. Don't know if this is a Show HN (it's not labeled as such) or just someone who randomly found it, but I'd be curious to hear from the developers what the thought process is here. Edit: checking out the company behind it, they have paid privacy products. I guess it's not as shady as it first seemed, but it's also not quite ready for launch given the competition's state of maturity. It's a hard market to get into I think, it might make more sense to fork Signal and make it use usernames and European servers to at least have something to work off of. |