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Sadly in my country no one uses signal, everyone used either WhatsApp or Telegram or Facebook messenger for everyday.
I would love to migrate if everyone in my country use signal or other FOSS messenger app, because I’m sick to see WhatsApp become more and more patronizing every single update.Unfortunately Signal has less features, is less convenient, not as pretty and generally unliked by people who don’t care that much about privacy, which means it will never gather the critical mass to be able to move completely to it. All my contacts use WhatsApp, it’s basically impossible to escape.
I managed to get all my close friend to move over.
And as for features it’s really not missing much. Sometimes it even gets new features before WhatsApp, for example reactions, disappearing messages, and scheduled messages
I’d do it but family won’t. Whatsapp is Goliath it will take some doing to peel away users because of the family connections
Done.
Y’all. Isn’t this the app that had the whole problem with Hegseth? I guess that was user error. Still, remember everyone talking about how unsecure it is.
This right here is a perfect example of how misinformation spreads so easily, intentionally or not.
Most people simply don’t pay much attention to details about things that aren’t directly affecting them. Signal and insecure were the things taken away from that debacle, not that it was entirely Hegseth that fucked up.
Not that the issue boiled down to simply adding someone to a thread they shouldn’t have been in, which happens all the time to people with regular text messaging. We expect that government officials should be verifying what they’re doing when handling classified info. The fact it was a modified and insecure version of the app wasn’t actually part of the issue. And that Hegseth fucked it up a second time didn’t even register apparently.
I understood that it was all Hegseth’s fault. I just heard people saying that they shouldn’t have been on Signal in the first place, even if everyone on the chat wasn’t braindead. I paid decent attention, that was just something frequently stated by relatively trusted sources.
Because it was ILLEGAL to use for official comms, not because it was insecure… It’s illegal because it makes the mandatory record keeping impossible. Because it works so well.
But also because it is wrong to use a general purpose messaging app for sharing war plans. You want an environment where you can not easily pick the wrong person or chat. Where only officials are even possible to interact with.
On an app like signal you can invite the wrong person by accident (as happend) or you could accidentally pic the wrong chat and post into your family or friend chat. That should not be possible for official business of this kind.
Still, absolutely no fault of signal. Great app. Use it. Just not for official super secret government business.
Pretty sure they added someone to the chat they shouldn’t have - a journalist - accidentally. Signal itself is secure.
Furthermore, I believe they were using some bootleg version of Signal.
