Greetings!

A friend of mine wants to be more secure and private in light of recent events in the USA.

They originally told me they were going to use telegram, in which I explained how Telegram is considered compromised, and Signal is far more secure to use.

But they want more detailed explanations then what I provided verbally. Please help me explain things better to them! ✨

I am going to forward this thread to them, so they can see all your responses! And if you can, please cite!

Thank you! ✨

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 day ago

    As you say yourself (cryptocraphic nerd here):

    Signal’s E2EE protocol means that, most likely, message content between persons is secure.

    So a shame there are no free servers, are the server soft not open source, only the signal app itself?

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      1·
      8 hours ago

      The server is supposedly open source, but they did anger the open source community a few years back, by going a whole year without posting any code updates. Either way that’s not reliable, because signal isn’t self-hostable, so you have no idea what code the server is running. Never rely on someone saying “just trust us.”