Then i strongly recommend you check out F-droid: it is the only place i know of where you can find trustworthy applications (they’re all free software and vetted by the community, and antifeatures are flagged explicitly) and their blog and overall community are a treasure trove of information.
If you’re confident noone is going after your hardware, Telegram is not the worst. But Jabber/XMPP or Matrix would be considered more robust and privacy-friendly, because they don’t rely on a centralized actor, and don’t force you to provide a phone number. They both support end-to-end encryption.
EDIT: If you have other questions, you can ask them directly. I’m afraid there’s no definitive guide of privacy :)
Thanks. By ‘ask directly’ I’m assuming you mean here and not by DM - if not, my apologies. Yes, I started using F-droid some time ago. I had hoped to root my handset , but it seems tricky to do the one I have. I think I heard somewhere that there’s an app (possibly several) that tests your phone for info leakage.
Depends on what you call private and who you’re trying to protect yourself from. Is the police an adversary in your threat model?
No. Just need to know how truly secure certain apps are like Telegram etc.
Then i strongly recommend you check out F-droid: it is the only place i know of where you can find trustworthy applications (they’re all free software and vetted by the community, and antifeatures are flagged explicitly) and their blog and overall community are a treasure trove of information.
If you’re confident noone is going after your hardware, Telegram is not the worst. But Jabber/XMPP or Matrix would be considered more robust and privacy-friendly, because they don’t rely on a centralized actor, and don’t force you to provide a phone number. They both support end-to-end encryption.
EDIT: If you have other questions, you can ask them directly. I’m afraid there’s no definitive guide of privacy :)
Thanks. By ‘ask directly’ I’m assuming you mean here and not by DM - if not, my apologies. Yes, I started using F-droid some time ago. I had hoped to root my handset , but it seems tricky to do the one I have. I think I heard somewhere that there’s an app (possibly several) that tests your phone for info leakage.
There’s also https://privacyguides.org
Excellent. Thank you!