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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Why not to trust Signal (Blogpost from 2018) (drewdevault.com)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Good summary of several red-flags in regards to using the Signal messenger.

Also interesting is this one.

Use a locally hosted XMPP with the Conversations client :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I think that in general it's the better choice for most people on Earth. The privacy laws in Switzerland, while not perfect, are very strict regarding the safe-guarding of people's right to privacy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

That Switzerland is super privacy secure is sadly a myth these days, and it is not without precedence (look up "Crypto AG") that a Swiss company and the Swiss & German intelligence agencies were cooperating with the US intelligence agencies for decades.

Anyways, I do use Threema since their clients became open source. It is an ok choice, but in no way any better than XMPP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

No one has a perfect track record. However, you'd have to give me more than one example beyond a company that was secretly acquired by the CIA to do that, and that is based in Switzerland. Broadly speaking, I'd rather my data stay in Switzerland than in any other 14 eyes country. Hell, I would even trust the Russians more to store my data than most American companies.