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i've just seen a comment in a post, in this very community, saying people trust signal because of missinformation (from what i could undertand).

if this is true, then i have a few questions:

-what menssaging app should i use for secure communications? i need an app that balances simplicity and security.

-how to explain it to my friends who use signal because i recomended?

-what this means for other apps in general?

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[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing, it's good. There's FUD to get you not robust it

There was one instance of the white house using signal on the down low to evade records retention and then got caught because they accidentally invited a journalist to the houthi bombing group chat, bit that's a user error

And they didn’t use a trusted Signal app, it was an Israeli clone app IIRC