As Signal get your phone number. Can we considerate this application as private ? What’s your thoughts about it ? I’m also using SimpleX, ElementX, Threema, but not much people using it…

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Hosted in the US on amazon servers, subject to national security letters.

If it was hosted outside the US and not on AWS, would you use it then?

US is the gold standard in surveillance and spying. I will not use any cloud services based in the US.

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My brother, you clearly haven’t read much about the CCP’s surveillance efforts.

Also remind me which region is actively attempting to end encryption as a whole?

E: lots of downvotes. No answers.

Read on articles written by usa?

Gullible

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No because I don’t think centralized services are a good idea for communications platforms.

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