i’ve just seen a comment in a post, in this very community, saying people trust signal because of missinformation (from what i could undertand).

if this is true, then i have a few questions:

-what menssaging app should i use for secure communications? i need an app that balances simplicity and security.

-how to explain it to my friends who use signal because i recomended?

-what this means for other apps in general?

  • zemo
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    8 hours ago

    Isnt the metadata also encrypted?

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      5 hours ago

      phone number, IP, time of connection, duration of the chat, size of the encrypted chatlog, etc. might be useful for feds

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      7 hours ago

      Your phone number is the biggest metadata you could possibly give (it means your real identity, including your current address), and signal has it.