Hi,
No, we don't have plans to incorporate Session in Tails.
In 2023, I interviewed 14 activists and journalists who use Tails to
understand better their needs in terms of communication tools.
Several messaging tools were mentioned as useful. Session was not
mentioned by anyone. Here is the summary of my findings on which
messaging apps to support:
- Signal is the most important app because it is the golden standard for
journalists and activists worldwide. Having to register with a phone
number is the main issue with Signal, but it's not a blocker for most
users.
Update: this has changed with Signal rolling our user name:
https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
- Wire is the strongest alternative to Signal because it solves the
problem of having to register with a phone number for the users who
really cannot afford it, but Wire as sustainability issues.
- Telegram is more useful to our antipersonas than to our personas and
could be dangerous for our users in its default configuration.
- WhatsApp would be useful for human rights defenders who support people
in the Global South who only have low-end phones or need to keep a low
profile.
- XMPP Nobody that we interviewed really uses Pidgin, the XMPP client
included in Tails. Replacing Dino with Pidgin would provide better
usability for diehard XMPP users, but is not a viable alternative to
Wire and would break backward compatibility with the OTR encryption of
Pidgin (that's replaced by more modern OMEMO encryption in Dino).
We might work on this in 2025:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/14567
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> Is there any plans to incorporate the session messenger into Tails?
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