Welcome to the Pad on Messengers in the context of the workshop: Code, Layers, Infrastructures

Some Resources to browse to inform discussion

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPFRhjMT7d2YtfRJ7sn8hk4m9i9UJG99E1vQQ7S72U5XJ

on Messanger apps

https://hackernoon.com/choosing-the-right-messenger-mm3x2z47
https://hackernoon.com/geography-of-bans-40abdfa066dd
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/everything-need-know-whatsapp-privacy-settings/
https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k6sW1hwxdA

ENCRYPTION DANCE 
http://ooooo.be/cryptodance/

New Voice Chat: Chirp

Another Reference: DuckGoGo 

on Anti - Oppressive facilitation strategies  & guidelines for collaboration

• https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/tools
• http://media.constantvzw.org/wefts/123/
• http://aorta.coop/portfolio_page/tips-and-tools-for-addressing-systemic-power/
• https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/tools

some words/concepts/ideas that might inform your discussion

• censorship
• Firewalls
• Platform Capitalism - What is GAFAM?
• Encryption

Some Questions for the group discussion 
    1. How do the messengers Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Threema, Telegram and Signal handle encryption? What information do these messengers get per message transmission? 
    

• • Many of these apps give an option to encrypt your communication, your metat data that is going in and out -- it depends on their corporate policy - defines the mode for how they allow encryption. Whatsapp, Facebook Messanger are not really encypted. 
  • Asymmetric encryption & symmetric encryption. For Symmetric Encryption you need to share a secret, how to transform the message and how to undo it, you have to have met each other before, to exchange the secret.
  • The Asymmetric ecryption was created, so you can start creating with a server, the process to create a seret without a trusted communication channel. If both know the secret, you can decrypt it. You change the size of the message, you don't know the size of the message. 
  • Observers can still see that you are communicating, 

    2. This is Signal's website: https://signal.org/. Can you figure out how to install it on your smartphone and/or laptop?
    3. In which countries has Signal been banned? Why?