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Won't be going back to Signal anytime soon, too secure (lost important stuff due to their poorly designed backup system) for me. But this has always been why I claimed Signal can't be trusted and I'm glad I can't say that anymore.

Assuming of course that you can use Signal on the desktop with usernames without ever involving a mobile app. If they haven't fixed that then I'm leaving them in the untrusted bin.

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> too secure

> (...) Signal can't be trusted

Can't be trusted for what?

Keeping your data safe from yourself?

I think they mean the public phone number. For some people only this thing was enough to not trust signal

I did. I can't secure mobile phones due to their design and available OS. And the whole phone number thing is too similar to how the NSA encouraged PGP email encryption because of the metadata. Phone numbers identify you even better than your finger print, gps and ip combined in some situations. You start sharing sensitive stuff more because everyone telld you how great Signal is despite that.

Yeah, beats any of the other options atm. But I do hope they remove the phone number requirement.

What are you using instead?

I think wire and briar are promising but convincing people to use them is hard. I just use imessage on mobile and arrange more secure non-phone means of communication if needed.

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