We say things privately that we’re still trying to figure out ourselves. We ask questions we wouldn’t ask publicly.
Research on digital surveillance has found that simply 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞. Researchers call it a chilling effect: people hold back, avoid certain subjects or censor themselves.
Private messaging affects more than data security. It affects how freely people speak.
Europe is dealing with exactly that dilemma now: 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.
In 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤, conversation content isn’t kept in a permanent central archive. On the web, encryption keys are generated locally, your private key stays with you, and 𝐒𝐓𝐑.𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 access means you don’t need a phone number or email to use the service.
A huge part of our private life now happens through messaging apps. Conversations, calls, photos, documents and files move through them every day.
Privacy shouldn’t depend entirely on policy. Part of it can be enforced technically, by limiting what the service itself can access.
With 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤, messages, calls and files are encrypted on the user’s device and decrypted on the recipient’s. Encryption keys stay on the devices, and StrTalk doesn’t store conversation content, call recordings or shared files.
Because StrTalk doesn’t hold the conversation content or the keys needed to decrypt it, the service itself doesn’t have readable access to those conversations.
StrTalk is available on 𝐰𝐞𝐛 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞, with encrypted messaging, voice and video calls, and file sharing.
A good ecosystem makes each product more useful through the others.
Your STR Domain works across SourceLess, so you do not have to create and manage a new identity every time you use another service.
You can already see this in StrTalk, SourceLess’s secure communication platform for private messaging, voice and video calls, and file sharing. If you own an STR Domain, you can connect it to StrTalk at no additional cost.
As we continue connecting more services and tools inside SourceLess, the same STR Domain will work across more of them, making your digital life easier to manage.