I bought everyone in my family a drink to get them to use Signal. Worked great and we’re still on it.
Don’t bother trying to sell people on privacy etc, for the most part. Show them Giphy integration, stickers, Stories, etc and show them that it’s fun. Signal has done great work there, in making it “noob-friendly”
This was recognized at least as far back as 1988:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse
Whether this guy should be forced to turn over his passwords or not:
https://www.theregister.com/2017/03/20/appeals_court_contempt_passwords/
The appeals court found that forcing the defendant to reveal passwords was not testimonial in this instance because the government already had a sense of what it would find.
> In a new filing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson writes that defendant Mukhtar Shariff “knew about the bribery attempt” and deleted the encrypted messaging app Signal from his phone when Judge Nancy Brasel ordered the defendants to surrender their devices to the FBI as the trial was concluding.
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> The deleted app included texts that Shariff’s co-defendant Abdiaziz Farah sent about the bribery plot, as well as a video of the cash delivery. But Thompson writes that even though investigators could not find the complete set of messages between Farah and Shariff, FBI digital forensics experts recovered notifications of incoming messages to Shariff’s phone from Farah.
Seems like a lot of people want that too, so hopefully they’ll add it soon