1 sat \ 3 replies \ @quark 2 Oct 2023 \ on: How to convince fam/friends to get Signal tech
can you explain why it is important for you here? because signal may not be what you think it is.
SMS is transmitted plain text, can be snooped on by hackers, saved by the telecom companies or intercepted and saved by governments. Although I think sometimes they just collect metadata, not the texts themselves, but I don't know. Same goes with voice calls. Signal is E2E encrypted, so all those worries are negated as long as the encryption isn't back doored. So id prefer to use signal. I'm not aiming for complete anonymity, just peace of mind that I can reasonably assume my digital communications with family and friends are with just them. And no digital record of those communications will be saved on someone's servers for eternity.
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ok if it is for some privacy, same with whatsup or other apps, they are also encrypted. but you always have to trust the apps and servers. People are lazy to change to another application because they all have the same features more or less and will keep using the one where all their contacts use.
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Yeah they just use iMessage and I switched to graphene
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