Why a honeypot?
Discussion
Their privacy model seems to boil down to “trust me bro” when I’ve looked at it
Also, lots of evidence that intel agencies have a backdoor reported in the media
I think most of those reports were the police had direct access to the persons phone. Not sure if the encryption has been cracked.
Can’t be sure, would prefer to use Simplex
I agree.
Signal encryption is unbroken. In fact plenty of other messengers (afaik WhatsApp too) use the signal encryption methods.
Signal doesn't save any data except your phone number and the last time you logged in (as Unix timestamp, so even without timezone).
For normal day to day ops and to move your friends away from WhatsApp, signal is the best alternative imo.
Simplex is even better in terms of privacy but the usability for non techies is hard(er)
what degree of privacy you need for the comms is key to the option with the best balance between security/privacy and UX, reach, speed, ...
You can refuse contact permissions and it still works.
You have to provide a cell number
Thats true. But isnt that all they have? The messages would still be encrypted.