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You know instance admins can read your direct messages in the fediverse? Twitter and Facebook also can - and sometimes do - read your private messages, and they have infrastructure to comply with law enforcement requests. I'd love to see some end-to-end encryption built into Mastodon clients.
@mmn I think it would be completely reasonable to only have e2e supported by native apps- mobile apps, and perhaps an electron desktop app
@mmn @micahflee technically doable with a browser extension as well?
@hishamhm ...extension/plugin/whatever. Needs separate installation anyway and thus no more enticing than desktop software.
@mmn it is more enticing to me because Firefox extensions are portable, easier to install and don't require admin privileges
@soapdog That's a great idea!
Also, very cool post on the hack day!
@hisham_hm Not sure I want to use supersecret ultraprivate e2e crypto on a machine I don't even have admin access on... ;)
@pettter In the case of e2e-credentials stored on computers with other admins than me, I am less concerned with admins reading my communication and more concerned with stray backups, stolen machines etc. which someone else finds lying around and can thus impersonate me with digital perfection.
@hisham_hm we just had an "Add-on Hack Day" here in Niterói, RJ, Brazil focused on building #crossbrowser #webextensions.
It would be quite easy to ship a #mastodon #webextension that works on #Chrome, #Firefox, #Opera and maybe even #Edge. Maybe I will work on it :fox:
About our Hack Day: http://andregarzia.com/en/blog/addons-hack-day