Bridgefy, the messenger promoted for mass protests, is a privacy disaster - Rather use open source Briar or Jami

In a paper published on Monday, researchers said that the app’s design for use at concerts, sports events, or during natural disasters makes it woefully unsuitable for more threatening settings such as mass protests.

The researchers notified Bridgefy of their findings in late April. The app maker has yet to fix any of the vulnerabilities but said it is in the process of completely overhauling the messaging internals to use the Signal protocol, the widely trusted open-source cryptographic engine that drives both the Signal and WhatsApp apps.

Briar is an open source peer-to-peer app with a long pedigree which will work perfectly well except only for Android. Jami is also a very secure privacy based peer-to-peer privacy based messenger that also works on iOS. Likewise, Loki Messenger is also Android and iOS.

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Researchers notified the company in April of serious flaws that have yet to be fixed.

source https://gadgeteer.co.za/bridgefy-messenger-promoted-mass-protests-privacy-disaster-rather-use-open-source-briar-or-jami