Use Briar instead of Bridgefy!!!

Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block: Usage Up 3685% – Slashdot:

An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet.

That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Francisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using no persistent managed network…

Too bad that Bridgefy is proprietary software. Luckyly there are free-as-in-freedom alternatives: the first entry is Briar:

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging tools such as email, Twitter or Telegram, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the users’ devices. If the Internet’s down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the Internet’s up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance

It has a nice website, it’s available on both Google Play “walled garden” and in the free-as-in-freedome F-Droid repository: Get it on Google Play

Eh che stufita!

Dear Facebook,

I’ve been accessing your social service using Frost an free-as-in-freedom Android app.

Why? Because I don’t trust you. You already far too much about me. And knowing your ways of handling and selling the data you collect I’ve decided to confine you as much as possible and this means that I will never install your proprietary client to access your services.

I want to keep you confined into softwares that I can trust, such as the Firefox web browser or the Frost client.

But you keep thinking that my usage of Frost is “suspicious” and keep locking me out. I’m fed up.

L’antimafia ed il Software Libero

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È già un grosso passo avanti che su siti istituzionali si citi Open Office.

Certo loro guardano solo l’aspetto meramente economico e non hanno coscienza del concetto di Software Libero e delle implicazioni che ha l’uso di programmi liberi e la necessità di poter accedere ai sorgenti e ricostruirne i binari. Un passo alla volta ci arriveremo. Un passo alla volta