I don’t know if I’m opening a can of worms here, and I’m still trying to backtrack a lot of history where I was tuning everything out. I keep seeing random swipes at Signal (or the representatives (?)), and I was wondering whether they are founded or just lies.Is it another situation like Lemmy where we just “take the technology and move on”? Thanks!
The thing is I have yet to see any reasonable alternatives.
Threema is the closest but it’s not free-of-charge, so a non-starter for most of my friends.
The others are controlled by Russia (telegram) or Meta. What else even is viable?
Session, an Australian fork of Signal with onion routing and no phone number requirement, seems promising.
Session disables forward secrecy for no reason.
Personally, I assume it’s a honeypot.
And it’s Australian - which means all it’s staff are obligated by law to place backdoors into their software for essentially whoever asks provided they flash a badge. If you don’t, it’s a one way trip to gaol.
If you trigger a canary in the coalmine somewhere, gaol.
Speaking as one - don’t trust Australians with your security. Ever.
This also disables notification text which is a good choice IMHO as those can be provided by Apple/Google to law enforcement
Didn’t know it was a Signal fork, interesting
I’m trying to move my family to Matrix with a self hosted server. It’s not easy though because of bugs in it.