For the people who want to use Signal but are stuck in WhatsApp land because all their contacts are on WhatsApp, you should download WhatsApp business and create an automated away message that says that you are only available via Signal and with a link to your Signal account (if you use a Signal username. ) People in my contacts are slowly switching to Signal.
Next up:
People hoping to get randomly added to war chats lol
I would ruin it by posting my balls immediately
i'm more curious about getting on their venmo friend list.
"hey, it's uh, vlad. i need 200k for the um, rigging of the midterms in uh, wisconsin. thank you."
Good. It's the only encrypted channel I trust right now.
I'd consider using them if I didn't need to use a phone number to register. My friends and family stick with Briar as a result.
Hey man, if you can convince anyone to use Briar, do that. I have better luck getting people to use Signal because it's way more popular and easier to sign up. And if I want to know if someone uses it, I can find out instantly.
I have a little pull in my group of friends. I've got 11 kids and I make them use Briar (SMS is removed from the phones) and so their friends end-up getting Briar and then their friends' parents have also gotten it. So we have a nice little circle of people using it.
Nice
Ironically having a giant security breach happen in a security focused messaging app was good advertising.
Of course in this instance the breach was not because of the app, which is a good thing I guess.
"When something is made idiot-proof, they will just make better idiots."
Bad actors are sowing distrust by implying that Signal is not secure. Always remember that the powers that be don't want the public to have encrypted comms and would love to ban private messaging apps altogether. I could also be completely wrong and Signal is in fact a fed honeypot...
The code is open-source though, and I'm hoping that individuals more learned than I would surely alert us if there were any backdoors/exploits...
You have to be very tinfoil hat to believe that this current administration is capable of anything so sophisticated as a misdirection.
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