Has been since a long time.
What makes it funnier is that Signal RELIES on Googles Infrastructure for their App to work - Signal cant function without it.
There are Signal-Forks that do not, like https://getsession.org/, but they are not nearly as popular as Signal, or Telegram
The whole "you have to give us your cell phone number" requirement put me off signing up. Kind of glad now.
If you fell for it and didn't use a burner number a blurple haired terrorist and her minions can doxx you on a whim for badspeak. Especially if you have your signal id in any of your social media bios.
If someone's been using it to whistleblow to journalists they're pretty much fucked if it was against the current regime.
Signal is one of the few successful tech products, like the Firefox browser, led by vociferous critics of Big Tech.
In what way is the Mozilla Foundation run by big tech critics? They’re completely dependent on funding from big tech and what little criticism of big tech that I’ve seen from them is half hearted complaining about adherence to open standards and hand wringing about the pending browser renderer monoculture.
The only reason the Mozilla "foundation" has two nickles to rub together is that Google wants something they can pick up by the scruff of its neck and wave at Anti-trust regulators.
All I want is a decent sms app, I don't even care about the politics other than the fact that someone this insane will obviously crash the platform in no time.
Telegram is by far the best and most secure. I'll offer two points of proof:
If you take the SANS forensics course, there's one brief paragraph on Telegram describing how they can't retrieve anything from it except maybe some pictures.
If they could get data from it, they wouldn't be banning it from the app stores.
Pavel built Telegram off the back of VK when he had his whole business taken from him by the government. He has designed it specifically to prevent that from ever happening to him again.
Lol, total FUD youtube videos? That's like quoting CNN as a source of reliable information. You live up to your name with aplomb.
Public groups, such as the ones given to German Authorities per law, are decidedly not encrypted or stored locally as they are public. If you post in a public telegram channel indeed you cannot expect privacy. Private chats however are encrypted end to end, which is not to say a dedicated adversary cannot get them, only that they cannot get them from Telegram. The endpoint, as always, is the weak link and an attacker with control of the network and device still can leverage that but that is beyond what a company can control.
Your evidence, much like your intellect, lacks any substance, training, or discipline. I don't expect you know what a SANS course is, nor are you capable of passing their exams however in short they are the gold standard of computer security courses.
Their source is under constant scrutiny by security analysts and privacy advocates across the world. The FBI has subpoenaed them for every scrap of data they collect and they produced virtually nothing in return. I'm not saying that can't change or that its a perfect platform, but they've passed some high bars.
Your post is superfluous given what Cascade typed:
As always you just want to hear yourself speak.
Signal was always shit. I removed them after my three day "try before you shit on it" grace period.
Signal has never been a secure form of communication, just FYI.
Wasn't signal also implicated with the french police hacking Encrochat?
Had to check, and encrochat used the signal protocol. In other words signal is completely fucked.
What's better?
Has been since a long time. What makes it funnier is that Signal RELIES on Googles Infrastructure for their App to work - Signal cant function without it. There are Signal-Forks that do not, like https://getsession.org/, but they are not nearly as popular as Signal, or Telegram
The whole "you have to give us your cell phone number" requirement put me off signing up. Kind of glad now.
If you fell for it and didn't use a burner number a blurple haired terrorist and her minions can doxx you on a whim for badspeak. Especially if you have your signal id in any of your social media bios.
If someone's been using it to whistleblow to journalists they're pretty much fucked if it was against the current regime.
How to destroy your own company in one easy step.
In what way is the Mozilla Foundation run by big tech critics? They’re completely dependent on funding from big tech and what little criticism of big tech that I’ve seen from them is half hearted complaining about adherence to open standards and hand wringing about the pending browser renderer monoculture.
The only reason the Mozilla "foundation" has two nickles to rub together is that Google wants something they can pick up by the scruff of its neck and wave at Anti-trust regulators.
All I want is a decent sms app, I don't even care about the politics other than the fact that someone this insane will obviously crash the platform in no time.
Where to next?
Just stick with Signal for now. When they make an invasive or idiotic change to their codebase you'll know. There will be a lot of pissed off people.
Heard good things about Threema, popular among Swiss and Europeans, but its a paid app.
I'd rather be the customer than the product.
Holy fuck, only someone like you can be fucking stupid enough to recommend an even more invasive messenger app.
Telegram is by far the best and most secure. I'll offer two points of proof:
Pavel built Telegram off the back of VK when he had his whole business taken from him by the government. He has designed it specifically to prevent that from ever happening to him again.
cope seethe mald L get real cry about it stay mad
Now go be a fucking normie somewhere else.
Lol, total FUD youtube videos? That's like quoting CNN as a source of reliable information. You live up to your name with aplomb.
Public groups, such as the ones given to German Authorities per law, are decidedly not encrypted or stored locally as they are public. If you post in a public telegram channel indeed you cannot expect privacy. Private chats however are encrypted end to end, which is not to say a dedicated adversary cannot get them, only that they cannot get them from Telegram. The endpoint, as always, is the weak link and an attacker with control of the network and device still can leverage that but that is beyond what a company can control.
Your evidence, much like your intellect, lacks any substance, training, or discipline. I don't expect you know what a SANS course is, nor are you capable of passing their exams however in short they are the gold standard of computer security courses.
Use Matrix, you fucking normie.
This is the right answer.
So...this is the new Social Autopsy?
What data do you think that is, exactly?
Their source is under constant scrutiny by security analysts and privacy advocates across the world. The FBI has subpoenaed them for every scrap of data they collect and they produced virtually nothing in return. I'm not saying that can't change or that its a perfect platform, but they've passed some high bars.
You have a very short memory.
It's a bad sign, we can agree to that at least.
It should be possible to tell if it's really end-to-end encryption. I guess the question is whether Signal gets the keys. I'm not sure how it works.
Alternatives?