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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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Is Signal Messenger Secure? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 years ago* (last edited 5 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 years ago (1 children)

Well its run by a US company, and they dont allow anyone else to distribute versions of their app (eg fdroid), even though its open source. Also the server code is not open source. I prefer Telegram, at least this way only the Russians get my data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 years ago

The client app for Signal users is also non-free software soon to be removed from the FSF Directory:

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Signal