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by derpmaster 4888 days ago
some problems with this

-authorities won't care msgs are anonymous and will assume you wrote them or know who did if your phone is seized, you will get rubber hosed anyways

-just having the app on your phone means guilty of dissent if arrested the erase function pretty useless. should camoflauge the app

-wandering around with bluetooth enabled while your adversary is a despotic regime with money to buy corporate intelligence contractor provided sophisticated malware and spyware is dangerous. hey here's my phone wide open for you to exploit even better, create spyware that jumps from phone to phone as we pass msgs you can create a virtual listening network to spy on the entire revolution

-intel can be changed by agents or censored before being passed on

to pass the app between devices could use nfc or wifi but that would also be dangerous to leave on all the time should agents get close enough to you and exploit your nfc to copy contacts or inject spyware, or wifi.

that said this is better than nothing which is the alternative