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Also worth mentioning is "Session". Doesn't require a phone number or email.
It is good for what it does, we use it at work for out of office chats.
nice try FBI
Signal is shit, its a honeypot. It requires your Phone Number and that the persons chatting have each other in their contacts on device, even if you convince friends not to use WhatsApp, WhatsApp, Google, Apple and every other App, someone installed that can access your contacts knows your Name, Phone Number and People you are connected to.
Signal relies on NSA Cloud Servers and "security" features of Intel Processore that are going to be broken or probably there already is a backdoor.
You can't have it on multiple devices with multiple accounts, its a closed ecosystem and doesn't have a big community involved with checking the code. They get funded by US Gov. and tried to put obvious backdoors in their desktop apps.
Use Matrix.org , I also heard good things about SimpleX.
Yes. Because everyone knows that Moxie Marlinspike is a big fan of the NSA. π
Dude hates the government as much as I do. No way would he work with them.
My friends and I tried Signal after the whole WhatsApp privacy issue thing arose.
Signal has been nothing but issues for us, plagued full of bugs. Images half the time would refuse to send. Videos would send but the audio would be slow even though the video itself was fine. Chat would load 200 messages prior then scroll down to the bottom on its own. The app doesn't have a good way of handling media so it'd grow to be 50GB in size, then if you backup Signal messages that'd double in size again.
Our group chat recently moved away from Signal, it's not perfect but at least are media is sending fine.
Signal is a great secure private messenger app until you realize that the keyboard is a third-party piece of software and is thus easily compromised. This is doubly so for people in CJK space where third-party IMEs are absolutely essential; Signal doesn't provide its own keyboard under its control and it certainly doesn't provide IMEs. So any keyboard/IME can phone home with everything you type into your "secure" app.
The people that run signal are a fair bit sketchy though, telegram is a generally better option.