Tag: Apps

Current

Terry Godier has found a great metaphor for a feed reader: a current. It leaves the shadow of mail clients and models feeds as currents with different velocities: automatically drifting by and fading away if unread. While moving away from traditional mail-like UI concepts feeds are still presented in-order (in contrast to social media-like “curated” feeds).

I like the idea and how far the metaphor carries and applies to all the technical and usability bits. It’ll take time to see if it really “holds water,” 😜 but I’m intrigued.

Comparing Signal-protocol-using messengers

There’re still privacy differences when you compare messenger apps all using the Signal protocol:

In this article, I’m going to compare WhatsApp, Signal, and Allo from a privacy perspective.

While all three apps use the same secure-messaging protocol, they differ on exactly what information is encrypted, what metadata is collected, and what, precisely, is stored in the cloud — and therefore available, in theory at least, to government snoops and wily hackers.

In the end, I’m going to advocate you use Signal whenever you can — which actually may not end up being as often as you would like.