This is the same “private” company which has been ignoring over 2000+ people’s votes for Monero support. It’s ironic how they are now making a cryptocurrency wallet for bitcoin.

I’ve seen a FOSS SMS messaging app that encrypted the original message behind random france words lol

Afaik Huawei phones have or had that.

Both can be found in GitHub. I use Obtainium to get QUIK releases.

Yeah

I use QUIK. It’s pretty minimalist and quite nice to use.

ok

Can you prove that when it is not open source?

I’m not sure what you mean by that. 2FA can’t be linked back to your phone or anything if that is your concern. If you use it to login to your account often, then maybe the platform can. If you want an alrernative, check platforms that support passkeys as a 2FA, it has the same privacy though.

Soms don’t even care.

Usernames still aren’t a thing. What are you talking about?

OP says it is trying to contact some aws server. Bitwarden afaik does not use aws. Brave probably is.

I don’t think it’s a problem. It is logically the correct way of doing so.

+1 for Hetzner

Being anonymous is the highest achievable level of privacy.

You. Literally contradicting.

Of course not, but it is a known fact that anonymity isn’t privacy.

Anonymity isn’t privacy, and privacy isn’t anonymity. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

If this was a random XMPP name, this would provide more protection than your real phone number.

Again, Signal is not supposed to be a anonymous messaging service. It is supposed to be a private one. You’re literally comparing a messaging protocol designed to be anonymous to a non-anonymous one. Sure, it would be great if XMPP was used overall, but unfortunately it isn’t. At least Signal developed a protocol that is starting to be pretty popular and is E2EE. You can use XMPP, but your average privacy user will use Signal over WhatsApp. Your argument literally is just about how XMPP is more anonymous than a protocol not even designed to be anonymous in the first place. Plus why care how the CIA or whatever knows who you’re talking to when they don’t know what you’re talking about? That would be a concern if you and/or the one you’re talking to were some criminal or something, but not for the average person. So if you’re some criminal, if you have even a little bit of common sense, you wouldn’t be using Signal in the first place. There’s other more secure and anonymous means of doing so. Whether it be over some protocol like XMPP, Matrix or SignalX’s protocol or something. Are you some paranoid person or a criminal? Because the CIA or the FBI wouldn’t give a fuck about why I am talking to person Y 24/7 as long as their phone numbers are not in the suspicious persons list and the messages are encrypted so that even if I were doing some stuff that would anger the government, they wouldn’t ever know it.

It is already a pain in the ass to get someone to join Signal over from other apps like Instagram, FB messenger, WhatsApp etc. By introducing decentralized systems, you’re causing even more “confusion”. They most likely don’t even understand what decentralization is and just back off because it “sounds” so complicated and scary to them. Plus even if they did switch to XMPP or at least started using it, would their friends switch too? Without someone to message, why keep using the messaging service? They’ll switch back right to their original messaging service they used to use before you encouraged them into switching over to XMPP. And now you even seem like someone they wouldn’t ask for advice from, because you once did give them advice and it was not useful.

If you are also so against phone numbers, you might like that Signal will introduce usernames soon. The ones you give your Signal username to will never ever know your real phone number (as long as you turn phone number privacy on in the settings [coming soon after the usernames]). Not a replacement for real anonymous messaging services, but at least somewhat similar concept.

As everyone other said, Signal is NOT supposed to be an anonymous messaging service, but a private one. Anyone knows that the moment a service asks for their personal phone number, they can’t be anonymous. For the average Joe, Signal is the superior choice over WhatsApp, at least.

I am amazed by how many funny groups there are in Telegram with funny content in it. They really do trust telegram.

You can also self host or use other’s self hosted signal instances as well.

It does not matter if they are using AWS, the data is already encrypted by the user’s device by the time it arrives their servers. They are already a non profit organization, they can’t afford dedicated bare metal servers in their workplace.

The unique fingerprints shouldn’t be a concern as long as enough people have the same “unique” fingerprint.

They’re literally all profit driven. How do you think they make money?

None of them respect your privacy, your own self-hosted DNS is the best.

Neither

WHO ELSE WILL PROTECT THE CHILDREN IF THE GOVERNMENT ISN’T THERE FOR THEM?! CHILDREN… THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!

If you are a normal user that just wants a bit privacy and no excessive amount of spyware, I guess iOS is the way. Though if you do care about privacy, you can get yourself a pixel phone and flash GrapheneOS, which is far superior to stock android or iOS. It’s FOSS, it has tools that will help with your privacy, etc. Plus android has a far bigger app market than iOS. You most likely will find everything you need in FDroid.

Aegis.

I am sure that Tutanota does not use any custom encryption algorithm. It is clearly stated in the FAQ that they use RSA (with PFS) and AES to encrypt emails exchanged between Tutanota users. https://tutanota.com/encryption There’s even a section which discusses why they do not use PGP. So it’s not like they can’t add it, they just don’t because it lacks “important requirements”. Plus they even are slowly developing a protocol that is post-quantum secure to encrypt their emails with.