Meet DAVE: Discord’s New End-to-End Encryption for Audio & Video (discord.com)
from morrowind@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 2024 21:40
https://lemmy.ml/post/20406991

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/20406932

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GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 2024 21:42 next collapse

Huh

[deleted] on 17 Sep 2024 21:46 next collapse

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yonder@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 2024 03:58 collapse

bro, just use firefox or Librewolf or something.

[deleted] on 18 Sep 2024 06:37 collapse

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autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 22:52 next collapse

False, this is a lie.

Discord is anti-libre software. We do not control it.

It bans us from proving its claims. It bans us from fixing its lies.

It fails to include a libre software license text file, like AGPL. Discord is malware, anti-libre.

thesmokingman@programming.dev on 18 Sep 2024 00:02 collapse

Interesting. I was able to access the linked whitepaper and repositories without trouble and the 3rd party stuff too. Do you have local config preventing you from downloading the source code to review?

While I can respect your distaste for non-libre software, you’ll need to back up the malware claim. There are real security concerns out there in common non-libre; labeling things that are not libre as malware solely because they are not libre muddies the waters and makes your message much less palatable.

autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 01:10 collapse

Where’s the rest of Discord’s source code?

While it bans us from proving its claims and more, i’ll never let it infect my devices.

morrowind@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 2024 01:20 next collapse

what the hell are you doing that you keep being banned from discord?

autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 01:25 collapse

It bans us from modifying its source code, sharing its exact and modified copies, using it for any purpose, etc.

We do not control it, anti-libre software.

Which software license do you think Discord is distributed under?

toastal@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 2024 08:40 next collapse

Why put the effort into such a hostile service?

autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 12:04 collapse

Replied to the wrong comment?

toastal@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 2024 14:52 collapse

Responding broadly to the thread of folks talking about userScripts & add-ons. This effort would be better put to getting folks to a different protocol where client modification & alternate clients are the norm.

autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 15:37 collapse

Yeah, some people never learn.

Blxter@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 2024 12:54 collapse

I’ve been using a modified client for about 2 and a half years now without being banned.

autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 13:03 collapse

Where’s our legal right to modify and share its source code forever? We don’t control it.

thesmokingman@programming.dev on 18 Sep 2024 03:34 collapse

The claim is that audio and video are E2EE. I’m not sure how you’re unable to disprove that using the linked code, audit report, and COTS debugging tools. Can you expand on that? I see a lot of FUD without anything more than “they’re not libre” which, again, doesn’t do a great job of selling your point.

autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 12:02 collapse

Just reverse engineer me bro

And every update, every other app, all their updates too, across every device… 🚩

Should we just waste our whole lives nothing but knee deep in disassembled binaries?

How stupid and gullable does openly hostile Discord think we are?

Couldn’t be me still coping and shilling trash like this.

thesmokingman@programming.dev on 18 Sep 2024 14:45 collapse

In another post you’re actively looking at purchasing GPS systems. The satellites you’re sending info to are not available to dissect and I highly doubt the firmware of the devices you’re looking at is publicly available much less libre. Your trolling is not internally consistent so it’s clear you don’t have any clue what you’re on about. Good luck with that.

autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 15:01 next collapse

This conflates software with service.

Signal’s offical servers, when we don’t own them, and we don’t run them, we can’t see inside them too.

Signal is an end-to-end encrypted libre app, so we don’t need to.

here’s half the source missing

just reverse me bro

that’s not your server

Always the same talking points. Some people never learn.

GreyCat@lemmy.world on 20 Sep 2024 22:41 collapse

I don’t think you need to send info for a GPS client to work. You are just a receiver, no data sent.

Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works on 17 Sep 2024 23:10 next collapse

If you believe anything you write or say on discord is private. Or would ever even be encrypted, I want whatever you’re smoking please.

LostXOR@fedia.io on 18 Sep 2024 00:45 collapse

Yeah, Discord is not a privacy preserving service in the slightest. Honestly I'm only using it because of the network effect at this point.

yonder@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 2024 03:56 collapse

That and it has full functionality in the browser. No bullshit “download the app”.

als@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Sep 2024 23:43 next collapse

But not for text?

Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz on 17 Sep 2024 23:51 collapse

nah, selling messages is way easier

dyc3@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 00:10 next collapse

It’s interesting that the threat model also includes participants. They take into account that when a user leaves, it should be impossible for them to continue listening.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 2024 01:00 collapse

screams in Matrix

hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 2024 00:51 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/7c963fe3-9dbb-4ba2-a3c4-7faad3bbf647.png">

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 2024 00:59 next collapse

How will they comply with the US government?

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 18 Sep 2024 01:08 collapse

They can deliver the data that they do have, which will be encrypted. Though I doubt they were ever recording calls anyway.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 2024 01:25 next collapse

How would the US government be able to see the messages? They need to monitor for young people leaking data from the Pentagon. /s

Quail4789@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 2024 01:27 collapse

Their TOS says they don’t record but who knows…

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 18 Sep 2024 01:27 next collapse

End to end directly to ccp

Quail4789@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 2024 01:29 next collapse

Am I too harsh in believing that if you claim to have E2EE but I can’t verify a) your source code b) my client was built from that source code (i.e. reproducible builds) then you don’t have E2EE? The whole point of encrypting my traffic on the client is I don’t trust you. Why would I believe you aren’t sending the encryption keys off to your server if I didn’t trust you before?

ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org on 18 Sep 2024 03:28 next collapse

you aren’t. to me this is just PR

warmaster@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 04:41 next collapse

They just mean you now really have to pay to get private data. 🤣

Chais@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 2024 07:15 next collapse

Am I too harsh […]?

No. If there’s no way to verify anything then all we have to go on is their word.
The word of a company generally isn’t worth a whole lot. Same with Telegram.

jeffhykin@lemm.ee on 18 Sep 2024 07:25 collapse

The clients are source available for telegram though

Quail4789@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 2024 11:45 collapse

Which is how we know their self-rolled encryption is shit.

There’s a reason why Telegram CEO can be arrested when Signal’s can’t. Because Telegram has information they can give but refuse to whereas Signal give everything they’ve got, which is basically nothing.

jeffhykin@lemm.ee on 18 Sep 2024 07:24 collapse

I mean technically the client is verifiable if you use discord in a browser tab… and verify it every time you load the web page… 🙃

autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 13:31 collapse

every time you load the web page…

You said it better than me. 🤣🤣

JustMarkov@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 2024 07:04 next collapse

Welp, better than nothing, right?

Etterra@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 12:59 next collapse

No I’m not.

dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 2024 13:18 next collapse

<img alt="all right dave?" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1aabed27-21dc-47aa-a3a3-35a2ccdb01f5.jpeg">

mat@linux.community on 18 Sep 2024 14:16 next collapse

but why?

OR3X@lemm.ee on 18 Sep 2024 15:16 collapse

Hey Discord, give us the ability to stream audio when sharing our screen on Linux ffs.

MashedTech@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2024 15:26 next collapse

No. 😡

Lemongrab@lemmy.one on 18 Sep 2024 16:50 collapse

Vencord/Vesktop supports audio streaming on Linux and is just a generally better experience compared against the Discord official app. Free and open source.

Blxter@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 2024 17:01 collapse

+1 for vesktop works great for me