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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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That is true, but the clients have been audited by crypto experts and it is probably way more secure than a random chat application just by the sheer amount of eyeballs on signal
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What? Whatsapp clients aren’t free software. What even is your point
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I think what they’re saying is that, to a lot of people (myself included), Signal is currently the best option despite being centralized. The decentralized options have UX issues, too small a user base, or aren’t well known enough to have gone through robust security/privacy reviews. While you can’t see what’s running on the signal servers, the app is open source and so far it looks to be encrypting the information correctly and it’s not sending anything but the minimal data to their servers.
‘A lot of eyeballs on the code’ is only relevant for open source apps. They were making a comparison between Signal and the many other open source mobile messaging apps.
You might also find this chart helpful if you’re looking for other alternatives. Personally, I found Signal to be the best one to get my friends and family onto
https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
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Consider the extra security to be had with Molly the signal fork. I love it and the devs
Uh, never heard of it! Looks very promising. Are third party clients officially allowed by Signal?
Yes? Yes.
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matrix, threema or simplex