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Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Morys@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I currently use Telegram for my friends and family, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the UK Government is either reaching agreement for backdoors with messaging services, or is trying its hardest to.

I'm also on Element/Matrix. Before I try to get my contacts to join me on there, should I be aware of any privacy issues or is that a good place to head?

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[–] LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

My response to the body of this post is https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

This might address the URL of this post (I've never interacted with "iCloud" so I don't necessarily know what would be a good replacement for it): https://www.privacyguides.org/en/document-collaboration/

[–] lahabi_era@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

hello beautiful people of lemmy I'm excited to make my first comment in here

so I wanted to ask: considering that WhatsApp is a big threat to privacy and even worse because of google and iOS backups, how big of an improvement would it be not using it and using the secret chat option in telegram instead? That would solve the issue wouldn't it? As far as I know the concern is with normal non encrypted conversations and the groups channels and all those.

I would love to use signal with everyone but where I live it seems that there is 0 worries about the topic so I only use it with my more "international" people. The most I can get is probably to use telegram E2EE.

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I've heard good things about simplex give it a look

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Is Briar any good?

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

There’s also Wire

E2EE and can be used as desktop or phone app interchangeably. No phone number required for signup.

Family has been using this for years now

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