Good summary of several red-flags in regards to using the Signal messenger.
Also interesting is this one.
Use a locally hosted XMPP with the Conversations client :)
Good summary of several red-flags in regards to using the Signal messenger.
Also interesting is this one.
Use a locally hosted XMPP with the Conversations client :)
Maybe in a technical sense, but there is a risk that people who used whatsapp for years, are going to stay on signal for many years. Maybe they should wait for a better alternative instead.
But we shouldn’t let anyone think that most people fully switched to signal and deleted whatsapp. The majority probably only gave it a try.
Do you remember when you could pay one dollar a year for WhatsApp? I remember those days. Developers get money to pay for infrastructure, features, upgrades, and services, and people get to keep their privacy. That ended the day FB bought them out. I remember those days. Maybe it is a bit of nostalgia and that’s why I like Threema so much. Signal’s best “selling” point is that it’s free and Snowden shills for it --mind you, Snowden is a former NSA contractor, and let’s not talk about the Signal foundation and their developers… It’s all so damn sketchy! Long live Threema, until proven wrong, of course.
Threema shares many of the issues of Telegram or Signal though. But I still think if you are a EU citizen, it is a better option than Signal, and that it isn’t linked to a phone number and for now allows 3rd party clients is definitely a plus.
I think that in general it’s the better choice for most people on Earth. The privacy laws in Switzerland, while not perfect, are very strict regarding the safe-guarding of people’s right to privacy.
That Switzerland is super privacy secure is sadly a myth these days, and it is not without precedence (look up “Crypto AG”) that a Swiss company and the Swiss & German intelligence agencies were cooperating with the US intelligence agencies for decades.
Anyways, I do use Threema since their clients became open source. It is an ok choice, but in no way any better than XMPP.
No one has a perfect track record. However, you’d have to give me more than one example beyond a company that was secretly acquired by the CIA to do that, and that is based in Switzerland. Broadly speaking, I’d rather my data stay in Switzerland than in any other 14 eyes country. Hell, I would even trust the Russians more to store my data than most American companies.
Yes I remember that, and I even paid for whatsapp back then. Less than a year later they were taken over by facebook. Since then I am extremely hesitant to give money to any company, because they can sell out from one day to the other.
I think I should mention that any product emerging from USA or USA fanboy country that has this problem of startup investor capitalist culture in youth minds (where youths love Warren Buffett ideas) should not be entrusted with such subscription style money. They are destined to sell out unless they are non profit style entities, and even then one must research.
It would sound a little weirdly worded (tried my best) but I think anyone should get the idea here.