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?

  • CandleTiger@programming.dev
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Well, it’s 100% linked to your contacts in one way or another because when you install it Signal will happily alert you to which ones of your contacts are already using Signal. I can’t see how they could manage that without slurping up your contact information.

    • drayva@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 hours ago

      AFAIK the client slurps up your contacts, but the E2E encryption ensures that the Signal server cannot actually see those.