I want to share a picture or GIF with my friend on Telegram, but I don’t want to do it directly. What can I use?
Take a picture with a polaroid and post it to an image board you both share in the same house.
Use Signal and if you both are happy with it, dump that garbage app 😂
Signal is centralized. I don’t like it.
Isn’t Telegram also centralized?
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Not on the Internet. Convert the gif to dvd. Then burn the dvd. Then give to your friend and burn the dvd again.
Define “safely”. That means different things to different people.
Telegram has their secure chat, which is fully E2E.
Only on mobile, and hidden opt-in
Better drop that BS platform
It does, but it’s in a very malicious fashion. You need to activate something called “Secret Chat” for a given chat conversation. Only then is it E2EE. Otherwise, it’s unencrypted like discord n stuff.
I don’t trust telegram because they have closed servers.
And you still haven’t answered the question.
Define safely. We really can’t help until we known what you’re trying to do
I just want the telegram to not have access to the photo. Otherwise, I would use other methods to transmit it.
Theoretically, they don’t have access to the photos even though they’re running the server between. That’s what end to end encryption means, it’s encrypted on your end and decrypted on the recipients end.
Unless the middle man in question retains both your and the recipients encryption keys, they can’t read the messages. This requires trusting the vendor in question.
However the only alternative to trusting a vendor is not only purchasing your own equipment, but also deploying it on your property, and building and maintaining your own isolated physical connections between those locations. This is what nation states and militaries do, the US military has an entirely physically separate and independent “internet”.
There’s a concept in information security not to spend more protecting information than that information is worth. Your gifs are probably not worth the effort of building your own infrastructure, unless you’re sending some highly sketchy content.
I’m going to come off as retarded but I have to ask: when did Signal get this bad rep? I remember not too long ago that it and Telegram were praised for their privacy practices. What happened for that to change?
OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
IP over Avian Carrier
So you want to encrypt it?
Maybe
You can 7-zip it with a password. That’s pretty simple to do and use - you only need an archiving program that supports it and can send that file and share the password.
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You could share a link to the image if you hosted a drive or photo sharing service yourself. Otherwise, I guess there’s Signal or telegram secret chats.
Do not use Telegram, use Simplex instead✌
simplex is a relatively new chat app but it’s evolving pretty fast, i suggest it too, but it has several bug and missing feature that need to be fixed and added in order to make it like a standard chat application
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the call will close if you go back to the chat (they should fix that in the next version)
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it does not ring while you call
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it can only be synced to a one desktop via the wifi
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it has only local notification system (due to security reasons)
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the calls are pretty susceptible to the line stability
but seems the only real secure chat app out there, you can check out the roadmap in the description of GitHub
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