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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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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Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema (threema.ch)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I use Signal as my main daily messenger the two major problems in my opinion are:

Centralized server (AWS)
Requires a phone number to register

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Signal is currently the best middleground between security, simplicity and widespread adoption.

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