I’m using the same gmail (as recovery email) that i’m using in youtube and instagram. I was talking to someone using conversations about removing ads from smart tv, and when i logged to youtube after, found a vid about it. This was the second time, the first time was instagram, similair thing.
If its a google product, its not safe. Plain and simple.
All data you upload to Google is subject to be searched and processed by them, whether you uploaded it intentionally or not.
Fuck, i’m a fucking idiot. Do u know any messaging app that uses a server and doesn’t share shit?
Anything that’s fully end-to-end encrypted and trustworthy. So, Signal, iMessage, and ProtonMail (but only to other ProtonMail users) come to mind. WhatsApp and Telegram are supposedly E2EE, but I don’t trust them.
PM is automayically E2EE too if the recepient’s server supports WKD or has uploaded their pubkey to keys.openpgp.org.
Ah, ok. That’s good to know. :)
Yeah but i thought that if I put my gmail as a recovery email in conversations it will be used as a fucking recovery email, not to share messaging infos
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Conversations is just a client, right? So if your server or your friend’s server is run by or backed by Google, they have the messages.
XMPP is not end to end encrypted, so whatever server you use, unless you own it, will have access to your messages. If that’s something you’re not comfortable with, you can run your own server or use an E2EE messenger.
XMPP is not end to end encrypted, so whatever server you use, unless you own it, will have access to your messages.
Almost every current XMPP client, including conversations, supports OMEMO E2E encryption by default.
This happend with OMEMO, for the server just whatever jabber.network got me
Hmm. Ok, then the likelihood Google was monitoring anything is pretty low. Unless they were monitoring your screen or your microphone. Do you have any AI screenshot features enabled?
If OMEMO was on, then Google didn’t read your message. Also now you say you weren’t using your Google account but a server from jabber.network? How about your interlocutor? If both of you were using an account for a random server on the jabber.network list, then Google wasn’t reading your messages, even with OMEMO turned off.
Yep true
Conversations.
There is nothing safe when it comes from Google, Apple, Facebook or Microslop. You can use them as a medium to pass data you encrypt yourself, but if you rely on their encryption (e2ee + them), where you hold no keys, it’s all only a sham. Some people will tell you signal is better. It’s probably true, until it’s not, since it’s not federated.
If you need a real secure communication channel, you will have to learn a bit about the tools you need. None of them come from any of these shitshow companies.
Thnks dude, i use briar for serious convos, but damn to find that conversations shares ur shit with ur recovery email, fuck.
Yep. Every bit of data you share with these fucks can, and will, be used against you.
Iirc, I think it was the Terraria dev that got all Google services blocked from him for a ban in one service and that Google never explained what was the reason? Might’ve been some other bigger indie dev, but it served to show how, if Google wants, you lose everything for any minor misdemeanor, or if they think you committed any, and good luck with the right to defend yourself from accusations.
