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I don’t use signal to hide from the CIA. I use it to hide my data from Meta. Do you have any proof or even suspect signal of selling data to Meta/google/amazon? If not I don’t care.

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Average threatmodel enjoyer. I use Signal as a whatsapp alternative for my friends.

If i truly wanted something secure, I’d selfhost an IRC server over Tor, and force all users to verify their nickname using public key cryptography

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Knowing your threat models very useful and important. If I was running a government communication program, I wouldn’t let my people use signal. Too much trust in another government. But that’s not nay saying signal, but my threat model would be much more complex, and I would absolutely not be able to use signal.

I might, however, fork signal and run the parallel infrastructure for my people only. That might be doable.

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