With Signal as your default messaging app, you could just tell people to switch to Signal and use one app. If both parties had Signal, secure messaging was used automatically.
Friends and family slowly started using Signal, because it’s just a nice messaging app, plus it’s potentially more secure.
Then Signal decided to tank SMS. …and slowly, friends and family started leaving Signal, and now it’s just us security-conscious folks again.
For the non-tech savy, having one messaging app (Signal/SMS) was excellent because a user can send a message to a contact and it would automatically use signal if the recipient was also using it and use SMS when the recipient wasn’t.
Now I get SMSs and have to gently remind the contact (or just reply in signal).
Or a frantic call from family “hey I can’t message my boss, I have their contact but signal isn’t finding the contact” then having to explain that SMS and signal are different.
There used to be: Signal.
With Signal as your default messaging app, you could just tell people to switch to Signal and use one app. If both parties had Signal, secure messaging was used automatically.
Friends and family slowly started using Signal, because it’s just a nice messaging app, plus it’s potentially more secure.
Then Signal decided to tank SMS. …and slowly, friends and family started leaving Signal, and now it’s just us security-conscious folks again.
I echo this.
For the non-tech savy, having one messaging app (Signal/SMS) was excellent because a user can send a message to a contact and it would automatically use signal if the recipient was also using it and use SMS when the recipient wasn’t.
Now I get SMSs and have to gently remind the contact (or just reply in signal).
Or a frantic call from family “hey I can’t message my boss, I have their contact but signal isn’t finding the contact” then having to explain that SMS and signal are different.
Yep. Sad day for security, though somewhat ironically.