> The problems are so many that it's better to use an alternative messaging platform that is built from the ground-up with encryption in mind, like Signal.
I'm not sure signal is what people who really care about their security should be using. Signal refuses to update its privacy policy to reflect the fact that for years now they've been permanently storing sensitive user data in the cloud. At this point I consider the fact that the very first sentence of their privacy policy has been a lie since 2020 to be a dead canary.
That, combined with their very unclear and misleading communications surrounding the data collection along with the dropping of highly popular features (the ability to handle unsecured SMS/MMS as well as secure communication) and inclusion of sketchy crypto features nobody asked for, makes me suspect even more that Signal may be telling people as loudly as they can to look for alternate solutions.
To anyone unaware that Signal was collecting and forever storing sensitive personal data in the cloud, that should tell you everything you need to know about how trustworthy it is.
I'm not sure signal is what people who really care about their security should be using. Signal refuses to update its privacy policy to reflect the fact that for years now they've been permanently storing sensitive user data in the cloud. At this point I consider the fact that the very first sentence of their privacy policy has been a lie since 2020 to be a dead canary.
That, combined with their very unclear and misleading communications surrounding the data collection along with the dropping of highly popular features (the ability to handle unsecured SMS/MMS as well as secure communication) and inclusion of sketchy crypto features nobody asked for, makes me suspect even more that Signal may be telling people as loudly as they can to look for alternate solutions.
To anyone unaware that Signal was collecting and forever storing sensitive personal data in the cloud, that should tell you everything you need to know about how trustworthy it is.
For more info on this see:
https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...
https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-...
https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...