As Signal get your phone number. Can we considerate this application as private ? What’s your thoughts about it ? I’m also using SimpleX, ElementX, Threema, but not much people using it…

Cheers

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      I don’t understand this & need some explanations (I’ve heard about the dev, it’s just USA stuff, much like Telegram mentioned Russian). Where exactly are the backdoors/the encryption compromised?

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        Sorry mate. I really don’t want to spend time writing exactly what I linked, and then explaining it in another way. English is not my main language, and I don’t want to spend a lot of time on it. I will recommend that you read this link a couple of times, and maybe the other link posted also - they explain it very well.

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          No worries, it’s not my main (or second) language either, it’s just that no backdoor is explained in that link.

          I’m just curious.

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            Oh, you think that they show you the actual door? They don’t - ever. But read the article again. Do you think that any agency will post millions into an app, where they don’t have a backdoor? The article clearly describes how the privacy part has been weakened.

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              Isn’t it open source?

              Oh, you think that they show you the actual door? They don’t - ever.

              In open source projects they indeed do show the backdoor. That’s is one of the key points of open source (along with free-ish terms of use). Closed source projects just say “there aren’t any” without showing anything.

              I’ve said many times I’m critical of Signal & ready to switch, but backdoor seems unconfirmed.

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                I’m sorry to hear that you don’t really get how this works. Do read the article and stop wasting my time here. Thanks.