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> nothing's changed

2FA, E2E communications, TLS everywhere, tightening security on our phones and computers, Congress rolling back some of the NSA’s dragnet powers, allied countries switching to open source and re-evaluating intelligence sharing agreements, and a sharp rise in VPN use is nothing?

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> E2E communications

What popular by masses E2E encrypted comms are there?

I’m surprised by the amount of my non techie friends who are using Signal.

I try to get all my friends to use it. Since a lot like to use WhatsApp anyway it usually isn't too hard. But Signal doesn't have a push from a big company like WA does. Generally it is my friends from India that I can't move, because all of their communication is done with WA anyway. But it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that such a stronghold could happen for Signal too. But it needs to be spread by word of mouth.

WhatsApp and FB messenger now use the Signal protocol for their encrypted comms.

I don’t trust them to implement the protocol without deviating from the accepted safe practices surrounding them. It is against their interest.

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