Signal adds new blur tools to its app to help you hide faces and other Identifiable info in the photos you share.
We’ve mentioned Signal Messenger before in quite a few guides. Signal is a free and open source, cross-platform encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC.
It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. Its mobile apps can also make one-to-one voice and video calls, and the Android version can optionally function as an SMS app.
Riot.im is out of beta. Riot.im is a free, open source and decentralized chatting platform based on the Matrix protocol for real-time communication offering end-to-end encryption. It can bridge other communications via others protocols such Slack or IRC, and it’s available cross-platform ( including web browsers ). For more info check out the official webpage.
PS: while we at it, here’s why you don’t want to use Slack.
PS2: for everything else there’s Signal.
Here’s a cool Mac app for those of us that are always struggling with remembering passwords, and not wanting to use the same password over and over. RVaultr uses images as passwords to make an encrypted archive of your file.
Here’s a cool Mac app for those of us that are always struggling with remembering passwords, and not wanting to use the same password over and over. RVaultr uses images as passwords to make an encrypted archive of your file.
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