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submitted 3 days ago by guymontag@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Is it still viable to use Signal for privacy in 2026? It's centralized, and has had many suspicious occurrences in the past.(Unopen source server code, careless whisper exploit which is still active as far as I know, and the whole mobile coin situation.)

Thoughts?

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[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 20 hours ago

I dunno if I would call it an endorsement. It was more so to show how impossible it is to have privacy online, lol. You'd have to go to extremes to avoid having any information about you end up online. And honestly, even if you went off grid in a cabin somewhere, there still is no guarantee that you will succeed in keeping yourself offline entirely. Kaczynski is probably also a bad example as you can find pretty much everything there is to know about him online. A selfinflicted fate.

Anyways, the point is that privacy doesn't really exist if you own a phone, tablet or computer.

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