Signal Review 2023: Secure Messenger (Pros and Cons)
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Signal is a secure messenger that is widely touted as one of the best options. This Signal review shows you the pros and cons.

“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”

This isn’t an ad, I wasn’t paid for this post. Just to clear the air: fuck facebook, fuck elon musk and twitter, fuck anyone who thinks this is a paid advertisement. I wish I was paid for this shit, I just wanted to spread the word. Thank you. 😀 👍

    • @PolydextrousEnglish
      14•1 year ago

      “WhatsApp privacy policy is terrible for user privacy,” says Ashley Simmons, founder of avoidthehack!, a website that promotes online privacy and security awareness. “It requires data sharing with Facebook, doesn’t offer encryption for chat backups, and ‘mines’ the metadata of your messages.”

      It does matter who’s telling you that you’re safe trusting them.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        I hear what you’re saying and I’m not trying to promote Whatsapp, but want to note that backups do offer encryption. They did not use to and I believe it is off by default, however.

        • @PolydextrousEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I hear your point as well. I just innately don’t trust Facebook. I can’t help but feel like, while they put out a public idea of their work, there is very much some secret shit they keep hidden, and it’s all the worst shit you can expect from someone with their hands on the data and power they have their hands on.

          Personal choices. I can’t trust FB. Although, I don’t live in Europe or South America, so I have the option to avoid WhatsApp. When I lived in both of those other places, WhatsApp was basically texting because it was free, whereas actual texting is expensive (maybe that’s changed, but WhatsApp is ubiquitous in other countries unlike it is in the US).