Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users by tracking push notifications that move through Google's and Apple's servers, a US...
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What about whatsapp? Is that secure?

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Security rarely comes in absolutes. Whatsapp doesn’t appear to be open source. That alone makes it security wise a worse choice than Signal.

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Anything made by Facebook is the worse alternative.

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That’s another viewing angle coming to the same result :)
But even before Fcbook purchased Whatsapp, it’d have been the worse choice than Signal.
Nowadays Whatsapp is a very bad choice in a lot of ways except for network effect, which is the only real strength of it.
Speaking of network effect: back when Signal was TextSecure, I could message a total of 2 (two!) contacts with it and the UX was far from being awesome.
Signal has come a long way. The UX is great and I can message a lot of my contacts on Signal now.

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The homies are all on Signal now, everyone else is on iMessage. It’s been a struggle, but we are getting there.

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lol is Facebook secure?

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