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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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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Signal is the gold standard of secure messengers. If you're looking for decentralized go with xmpp and/or matrix.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] artyom@piefed.social -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

Read on articles written by usa?

Gullible

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

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