There is no such thing as the Whisper protocol, AFAIK.
Signal uses the Signal protocol, formerly known as TextSecure due to Signal being a merge of the earlier (proprietary) projects TextSecure for encrypted messaging and RedPhone for encrypted voice calls.
The two projects were initially started by Whisper Systems, co-founded by Moxie Marlinspike and Stuart Anderson. The name of this company may be the cause of confusion, but the protocol has to my knowledge never been called anything else than TextSecure and subsequently Signal.
Whisper Systems was acqui-hired by Twitter who then open-sourced both projects under the GPL license, after which the Open Whisper Systems organization was created by Moxie to continue development on what later got merged into the Signal project as we see it today.
The protocol uses the Double Ratchet algorithm (a.k.a. Axolotl Ratchet) for cryptographic key exchange, invented specifically for secure messaging and use in Signal (although naturally open source and applicable for oher use cases too).
Wikipedia (understandably) has a nice timeline over the various projects:
In Sweden there were computer magazines that came with a CD-ROM that had at least one new Linux distro on it with every issue. I had so much fun trying them all out on my computer and noting down what I liked the best with each of them.
Sometimes when I was home alone for an extended period of time, I used to install a distro on the shared family computer as well, to use as a router and have the feeling of running a real server (so far I had only experienced UNIX/Linux servers via restricted shells on public services over dialup, but never as root...).
Before the family returned home I would reinstall Windows 95 and they would be none the wiser. At least I think so...
In case you haven't already explored existing browser alternatives, Qutebrowser is a keyboard-driven browser that can be infinitely extended as it is written in Python and you have full access to the browser API (including the low-level internals) in your configuration file. You can import any Python modules you need, and it has native support for ad blocker lists + userscripts (Greasemonkey et al).
This is actually a great idea, especially if it also supported recurring payments. I've terminated all my subscriptions to various streaming services and am planning to instead use that money for monthly donations to FOSS projects I use - such a service would help, both for payment and possibly discovering other projects I haven't thought about that offer ways to donate!
I believe it's usually that they attempt to use some of the parts in the Google Play framework that is (currently) not fully supported by the Google compability layer in GrapheneOS, but the developers does an amazing job on trying to keep up with stock AOSP changes and make apps work equally good as on a stock Google image.
That, and sometimes just checking whether the phone is running an image signed by Google and refuses to run if not.
Personally, I've only had issues with one app, and that's Pushover (a push notification service). It tries to use Google Play for notifications and I refuse to install that for this single app.
I know what you mean, but it's not what you said. :-)
Just wanted to point out that they still have monopoly on the enterprise side of organization infrastructure, which is huge - the number of companies running production systems on self-hosted Linux infrastructure are orders of magnitude fewer than those that don't, even if the number of Windows servers in total might be fewer.
Microsoft gets paid per employee, per application suite and per cloud service (if Azure is involved for the AD) - not only per server. They were very early on the recurring subscription model almost every SaaS provider is leaning into nowadays, even for on-prem stuff.
Not really. Almost every Windows-based organization over a certain number of employees will use some shape or form of Active Directory (whether on-prem or in Azure) and most likely also Office 365, which is corporate/enterprise infrastrucure that is really hard to migrate away from once you built your IT and processes around it.
All the license fees for just retaining access to and being able to onboard new employees in that infrastructure is a huge portion of the budget for these organizations.
They just gave up the war on competing with UNIX/Linux on the non-enterprise production infrastructure side, since there were no money to be made there.
You forget the other side of the coin with using a rolling distro like Arch - you more or less have to keep updating the system a couple of times per week, especially if you want to be able to install new packages with a lot of dependencies.
Not saying I personally have any problems with it, but it's worth mentioning when talking about how quick and easy it is to update the system (which it truly is)... ;-)
Hear hear. Knowledge should be communicated in an easily shareable way that can also be archived as easily, in contrast to a video requiring hundreds of MB:s.
Venezuela was sanctioned because of human rights abuses, corruption, and actions undermining democracy under the Maduro government.
Now replace Venezuela with USA, Marduro with Trump and read this sentence aloud. You americans sure like pointing fingers at socialism as being the root of all evil, but ask yourself how your own country is doing at the moment.
A majority of your citizens cannot afford basic healthcare (a human right according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25) without catastrophical economic side-effects that may haunt them for the rest of their lives, due to Republican politics, and you have a president that is trying to speedrun your country into an authoritarian government where free speech is no longer allowed, unless it appeals to the president.
Venezuela's system is not owned by workers but by the state - oil - and a few companies, is state capitalism.
This means that the state of Venezuela is free to decide how to use their own natural resources, the price of it and how to distribute the revenue to enrich the country. In contrast, allowing private companies to do so always ends up in foreign actors taking control over the country's resources with little to no regard for long-term sustainability. History has many examples on foreign states (many times USA) overthrowing governments in such countries in order to priviatize exploitation of natural resources for their own financial gain.
You might want to read about how Eisenhower did this in Guatemala back in 1953, using CIA to launch a covert propaganda operation with the mission to oust the socialist government and criminalize socialist ideology by arresting his supporters, politicians and union leaders in order to ensure that the american company United Fruit could continue exploiting the country into ruin:
They also spend a lot of time and resources into researching and advancing technology around measured boot and running as much as possible in memory, without having to use disk storage.
There is no such thing as the Whisper protocol, AFAIK.
Signal uses the Signal protocol, formerly known as TextSecure due to Signal being a merge of the earlier (proprietary) projects TextSecure for encrypted messaging and RedPhone for encrypted voice calls.
The two projects were initially started by Whisper Systems, co-founded by Moxie Marlinspike and Stuart Anderson. The name of this company may be the cause of confusion, but the protocol has to my knowledge never been called anything else than TextSecure and subsequently Signal.
Whisper Systems was acqui-hired by Twitter who then open-sourced both projects under the GPL license, after which the Open Whisper Systems organization was created by Moxie to continue development on what later got merged into the Signal project as we see it today.
The protocol uses the Double Ratchet algorithm (a.k.a. Axolotl Ratchet) for cryptographic key exchange, invented specifically for secure messaging and use in Signal (although naturally open source and applicable for oher use cases too).
Wikipedia (understandably) has a nice timeline over the various projects:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ASignal_timeline.svg
End of nerd snipe transmission, over and out. :-)
In Sweden there were computer magazines that came with a CD-ROM that had at least one new Linux distro on it with every issue. I had so much fun trying them all out on my computer and noting down what I liked the best with each of them.
Sometimes when I was home alone for an extended period of time, I used to install a distro on the shared family computer as well, to use as a router and have the feeling of running a real server (so far I had only experienced UNIX/Linux servers via restricted shells on public services over dialup, but never as root...).
Before the family returned home I would reinstall Windows 95 and they would be none the wiser. At least I think so...
In case you haven't already explored existing browser alternatives, Qutebrowser is a keyboard-driven browser that can be infinitely extended as it is written in Python and you have full access to the browser API (including the low-level internals) in your configuration file. You can import any Python modules you need, and it has native support for ad blocker lists + userscripts (Greasemonkey et al).
This is actually a great idea, especially if it also supported recurring payments. I've terminated all my subscriptions to various streaming services and am planning to instead use that money for monthly donations to FOSS projects I use - such a service would help, both for payment and possibly discovering other projects I haven't thought about that offer ways to donate!
The United States Packet Service will see to that TCP/IP packet of yours.
Is that Tom Waits?!
Samsung did everything before it was cool.
And then you can pull ServiceNow out of your sleeve the next year, and do thing all over again!
I believe it's usually that they attempt to use some of the parts in the Google Play framework that is (currently) not fully supported by the Google compability layer in GrapheneOS, but the developers does an amazing job on trying to keep up with stock AOSP changes and make apps work equally good as on a stock Google image.
That, and sometimes just checking whether the phone is running an image signed by Google and refuses to run if not.
Personally, I've only had issues with one app, and that's Pushover (a push notification service). It tries to use Google Play for notifications and I refuse to install that for this single app.
I'm sure the Antifa Corporation Ltd is involved with this operation at some level...
I know what you mean, but it's not what you said. :-)
Just wanted to point out that they still have monopoly on the enterprise side of organization infrastructure, which is huge - the number of companies running production systems on self-hosted Linux infrastructure are orders of magnitude fewer than those that don't, even if the number of Windows servers in total might be fewer.
Microsoft gets paid per employee, per application suite and per cloud service (if Azure is involved for the AD) - not only per server. They were very early on the recurring subscription model almost every SaaS provider is leaning into nowadays, even for on-prem stuff.
Not really. Almost every Windows-based organization over a certain number of employees will use some shape or form of Active Directory (whether on-prem or in Azure) and most likely also Office 365, which is corporate/enterprise infrastrucure that is really hard to migrate away from once you built your IT and processes around it.
All the license fees for just retaining access to and being able to onboard new employees in that infrastructure is a huge portion of the budget for these organizations.
They just gave up the war on competing with UNIX/Linux on the non-enterprise production infrastructure side, since there were no money to be made there.
You forget the other side of the coin with using a rolling distro like Arch - you more or less have to keep updating the system a couple of times per week, especially if you want to be able to install new packages with a lot of dependencies.
Not saying I personally have any problems with it, but it's worth mentioning when talking about how quick and easy it is to update the system (which it truly is)... ;-)
Lisan al Gaib!
No, it was explicitly called out as a flaw:
Hear hear. Knowledge should be communicated in an easily shareable way that can also be archived as easily, in contrast to a video requiring hundreds of MB:s.
https://wiki.servarr.com/
Now replace Venezuela with USA, Marduro with Trump and read this sentence aloud. You americans sure like pointing fingers at socialism as being the root of all evil, but ask yourself how your own country is doing at the moment.
A majority of your citizens cannot afford basic healthcare (a human right according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25) without catastrophical economic side-effects that may haunt them for the rest of their lives, due to Republican politics, and you have a president that is trying to speedrun your country into an authoritarian government where free speech is no longer allowed, unless it appeals to the president.
This means that the state of Venezuela is free to decide how to use their own natural resources, the price of it and how to distribute the revenue to enrich the country. In contrast, allowing private companies to do so always ends up in foreign actors taking control over the country's resources with little to no regard for long-term sustainability. History has many examples on foreign states (many times USA) overthrowing governments in such countries in order to priviatize exploitation of natural resources for their own financial gain.
You might want to read about how Eisenhower did this in Guatemala back in 1953, using CIA to launch a covert propaganda operation with the mission to oust the socialist government and criminalize socialist ideology by arresting his supporters, politicians and union leaders in order to ensure that the american company United Fruit could continue exploiting the country into ruin:
https://penguinhistory.com/1954/06/18/the-cia-coup-that-crushed-guatemalas-democracy-and-unleashed-decades-of-terror/
200,000 Guatemalans were killed in the process!
Will your body produce CO2 without having oxygen to break down in the first place?
The fact that they do not store any customer data was put to the test in 2023, when the Swedish police raided their offices and left with nothing.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised
They also spend a lot of time and resources into researching and advancing technology around measured boot and running as much as possible in memory, without having to use disk storage.