Session
Session is the world's first open-source, decentralised private messenger to use industry-leading Signal Protocol encryption — without asking for your phone number.
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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Session, and it has gotten 42 likes
- Developed by Oxen team (ex. Loki Project)
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 4.3
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- justarandom added Session as alternative(s) to Molly (Signal fork)
- tuva-hayabi reviewed SessionIt can be used on Smartphone and PC with the same ID and user name. Sending files and pictures is possible like in other messengers, also voice messages. The advantage over Signal is, that no phone number is asked.
- alfill edited Sessional
Better than Signal. Not necessary to leave a phone number.
An honest fork of signal, where the whole dev team tries to make it the best they can.
It can be used on Smartphone and PC with the same ID and user name. Sending files and pictures is possible like in other messengers, also voice messages. The advantage over Signal is, that no phone number is asked.
Like signal but won't tie you down to phone app on desktop.
Open source, decentralized and mandatory fully encrypted.
Still need some work but on a very good way.
(2021-04-02)
Session is an application running on the Loki Network, which is built on Network Layer (IP) onion routing.
It allows E2E communication and user anonymization via "service nodes" (like Tor nodes).
The "service mode" is designed to incentivize users by giving them mined cryptocurrency.
These are described in detail in the Loki Network documentation.
https://loki.network
Unfortunately, however, I still don't understand exactly why Windows Defender alerts to the desktop version of Session.
Session claims that it is a false positive by Windows Defender.
Windows Defender detects Windows installer as PUA:Win32/CoinMiner #939
https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/issues/939
I'd like to believe that too, but I think this issue needs to be resolved for Session to really become popular. I think the discussion with Microsoft is urgent.
I changed the stars from one to three, meaning that I am reserving judgment for now.
(2020)
When I tried to install the desktop version, Windows Defender responded: "Win32.CoinMiner is embedded in the program."
• Edited 8 months ago