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@Mer__edith I encourage anyone reading this who is concerned for their privacy to begin using to a reputable service such as Signal and encourage your friends. There are a handful of other trustworthy ones, but I can only recommend Signal because that is the only one I've used, and I believe it to be the best for my purposes based on my research. (edit: removed my poor recollection about Telegram. Not recommended.) 3 comments
@binaryphile @Mer__edith I use Signal and Session, depending who I'm talking to. Unfortunately Signal doesn't let you sign up anonymously (I don't know if this has changed). This has personally annoyed me because some of my contacts who I'm happy to just use text message with now know I use Signal and have contacted me on there when I've not wanted to use it with them. This following comparison chart is quite helpful in understanding the differences in different apps: https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ @healthiswealth @Mer__edith Thanks, I removed the Telegram mention and boosted this. Unfortunately I can't endorse any Meta product due to who they have shown themselves to be. I don't recommend that anyone use their products. |
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@binaryphile @Mer__edith
Telegram is not E2E encrypted, unless you go on a "secret chat" which most people do not do. Even then, they use their own made crypto and have no PFS (unless you concede to their definition of PFS which is "we'll change the keys every 100 messages").
Even Meta's Whatsapp is better than this, you leak all your Metadata but at least the conversations are E2E encrypted with the signal protocol.