What does your company use for IT services? Do you call Bob In A Truck? Or do you have a relationship with a Small Business IT consulting firm that understands proper long-term management?
Hopefully it’s the latter (or even an MSP) - they’ll (hopefully) have some experience here (it really depends, better consultants have the focus, some just implement what you tell them to implement).
No worries, you still added useful info to the subject.
It’s quite a challenge to wade through all the different tools today. Used to be you found a solution and went with it. Today it’s always changing, with your favorite tool getting changed in some crappy way, making you find something new. It’s tiresome.
Check out Teleguard from SwissCow.
I haven’t seen an analysis of their privacy claims, so I’m not really sure (so when I say check it out, maybe you’ll find info that I haven’t).
What I know is I like how the connect new device process works - you essentially restore a backup to a new device, which requires the user ID (not your user name) and a code. Which likely means individual device data isn’t sitting in the open somewhere.
They have a free and a paid tier, which they seem to be marketing toward business.
They claim messages are ephemeral on their servers, but I haven’t found a third-party analysis of them, which is disappointing.
I’ve found Telegram performance to be excellent.
As for privacy with it… I wouldn’t trust it overly much. Which is frustrating, because from a performance standpoint it’s solid. Messages show up instantly, on all devices, Android, iOS, Windows, etc.
I wouldn’t consider Zoom to be privacy minded at all.
Wtf?
It’s Jason. If they wanted it pronounced that way, they should’ve spelled it differently…
Like GIF
Sorry, no, at least one could argue GIF. JSON is a single freakin’ vowel short of a common male name.
Morons.
Lol, right?
Here, let’s standardize on one system that’s centrally managed and opaque.
🤦🏼
A much better solution would be to host their own XMPP servers with encryption required (replicated around the world of course), and allowing only their own-compiled clients to connect, and add some other validation mechanisms (MFA, etc). Like initially requiring a physical presence registration of a device.
Also run the app in a container, which has been available on Android since at least 2010 (my company was doing it then).
Signal is alright for the average person, but it’s got it’s own weaknesses that are unacceptable for an organization like a business, or especially military.
I’m tech savvy, been in IT for nearly 40 years. Wrote my first program in Fortran on punched cards.
Linux is no easy switchover. It’s problematic, regardless of the distro (I’ve tried many over the years).
My latest difficulty - went to install Debian and it hung multiple times trying to install wifi drivers.
Mint can’t use my Logitech mouse until I researched it and discovered someone wrote an app to enable it. The most popular mouse on the planet doesn’t work out of the box.
Typical user would be stumped by these problems.
I can go on for days about “Year of the Linux Desktop” (which I first heard in 2000). Can Linux work as a desktop? Definitely. And it can be pretty damn good, too, if your use-case aligns with it’s capabilities. But if you’re an end-user type, what do you do a year in and realize you need a specific app that just doesn’t exist in Linux?
Is it a direct replacement for Windows? No. Because Windows has always been about general use - it trades performance for the ability to do a lot of varied things, it includes capabilities that not everyone needs.
Linux is the opposite, it’s about performance for specific things. If you want a specific capability, it has to be added. This is the challenge these different distros attempt to meet: the question for all of them is which capabilities to include “out of the box” (see my mouse example - Debian handles it just fine).
This is also the power of Linux, and why it’s so great for specific use-cases. Things like Proxmox, TrueNAS, etc, really benefit from this minimalism. No wasted cycles on a BITS service or all the other components Windows runs “just in case”.