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The Best Encrypted Messengers in 2024
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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TLDR: Avoid Telegram and WhatsApp. Recommended messengers are Session, Signal, SimpleX and Threema. Honorable mention: Briar.
Session should probably be avoided as well, primarily because they've disabled things like perfect forward secrecy and a few other security measures that probably should not have been disabled.
Session is dead lmfao
Oh damn. When I first looked into Session I was really excited, until I found out that the anonymity layer was based on an altcoin. Which means that you're only anonymous as long as line goes up. I didn't expect it to fail quite this quickly though.
Oh damn
TLDR???? pls
That's mentioned in the article I believe. I was just trying to save some people a minute or two. :)
Honorable mention to Matrix as well
OK, WhatsApp is owned by Meta and it is proprietary, but why not Telegram?
Effectively does not have end-to-end, phone number required and overall hard to use anonymously, etc.
Doesn't Signal also require a phone number?
Not anymore if I understand everything correctly
It does (and you still can't make multiple accounts per number either), it just doesn't have to be public.
Yes, and that's a mark against Signal.
Simplex should be the only one around with Briar and Threema being sidekicks