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Telegram, that's true upon.
Signal... that I'm not so sure of.
They require your phone number and I've just seen a message that had everyone's fiat names in it. (Not my message. I don't use that trash.)
From my research, they're moving to remove the phone number requirement. Now yes, the phone number doxxing is a problem (and I get that), but I don't use it for outside family.
That's the reason I have Signal in the first place.
For family, I just text or call. I know it's not the most secure, but it's not like I'm doing illegal dealings in texts to family.
Think about how much the contents of your texts, which are all plaintext, would help someone wrench attack you.
Don't believe the propaganda that only criminals need encryption.
Things like "we almost got blown off the side of a mountain in a tent" and kitten pics aren't gonna give anyone much to work with.
I'm sure you are the only person on the planet who never does any of the following.
Sends and identifiable photo to family
shares photos with exif data
texts went to the X store need anything?
texts meet you a X and time Y
texts I'll be home around x time
texts on my way
texts any PII
If you don't think your texts can be used against you you have failed at adversarial thinking. This is especially true if you have kids with living grandparents.
I never said I was perfect. I'm just saying, we all could do better, yes? If we really care about keeping our identities our own, we would do less free giving of our information. I have only recently begun the erasing of my identity from the clutches of the technocrats and their ilk but I can't help but feel like pushing services that do ask for your info, even if they say they're not sharing it, is counterintuitive to the privacy ethos.
I tried nearly all of them. Signal was the only one with a grandma proof level of reliability and ease of use.
Snowden uses Signal daily and publicly admits to it.
Top officials in the US government use Signal group chats to plan military strikes. We know this because of a user error not a hack.
A lot of other encrypted messengers admit they are are using the signal algorithm.
I really can't wrap my head around all the fud spread about Signal.
Sending everything plaintext because you are paranoid to give the global benchmark secure messenger you phone number is textbook letting perfect be the enemy of good.
They've already implemented a privacy preserving feature to hide the phone number and use usernames instead. I've been using signal with public groups for 2 years now, no one in the groups knows my phone number. This guy is just spreading FUD.
1. The phone number isn't shared with your contacts unless you do so deliberately.
2. The name that's shown, you can set to whatever you want.
3. If some names and phone numbers are shown by default chances are those are for people who you already had in your contact list.
4. I suspect the reason for your lies is because you want to spread FUD so people are more inclined to use less secure options making it easier for intelligence agencies to spy on them. Nice try glowie. Fuck off.
SimpleX and 0xChat exist, you know...
fiat names 😆
My understanding DM notes are not secure. So what should we be using ? 🤔