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  • Do you want it to be so complicated that no one you know in real life is able to use it for more than two weeks before they make some kind of mistake or change that deletes their entire message history and identity? Matrix

    Do you want a slim chance that friends and family might use it, but you have to listen to privacy nutjobs tell you your app is a CIA NSA PsyOp and you might as well cc: potus(at)whitehouse(dot)gov all your messages, it’s run by an american non-profit obviously it can’t be trusted? Signal






  • The client is open source, so it doesn’t matter what the server code is, you can see everything the client sends and therefore tell what possible data is being collected.

    It’s run by a non-profit so there’s no shareholders to please.

    Your messages and decryption key are not stored on their servers.

    It’s been independently audited.

    They have publicly posted responses to user information requests where they only provide the account creation date and last access time.

    The (admittedly incompetent) US government recommends using Signal (for non-classified information) and top officials have been caught using it (Houthi Working Group).

    You can never be 100% sure, but it appears to have excellent security and privacy.