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DESCRIPTION:With the current massive user migration from X and Meta to dece
 ntralized social media such as Mastodon\, the interest in federated commun
 ication infrastructures is gaining traction. We have been documenting simi
 lar tendencies since 2018 already\, analyzing how users in various context
 s shift their preferences in terms of secure messaging applications. In th
 e context of a longitudinal study of secure messaging apps users and devel
 opers this presentation proposes to analyze several waves of user migratio
 ns and suggests an analytical framework to understand the changes in the p
 erception of what’s a “good secure messaging app” with a particular 
 attention to federated architectures and their potential. The “Signal ga
 te” has shown that cryptographic properties of a messaging app per se do
  not offer a guarantee of security\, and many other (sometimes even non-te
 chnical) qualities enter the game. We propose to understand digital securi
 ty as an evolving sociotechnical process of adjusting tools and behaviors 
 and to question the race for an “always more secure” messaging app. We
  argue that infrastructural choices (centralized vs decentralized vs distr
 ibuted) and social practices (such as contact discovery) matter.
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LOCATION:Amphitheater 122
SUMMARY:Always more secure? Analyzing user migrations to federated e2ee mes
 saging apps - Ksenia Ermoshina
URL:https://cfp.pass-the-salt.org/pts2025/talk/LEMGYM/
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