Is using an Matrix account from matrix.org private and secure enough to talk with my family members and people in general?

[toastal@lemmy.ml]

I am just thankful so far that Signal has let WhisperFish exist as an alternative—even if it goes against what they say—which gives me an alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly.

[emberleaf@lemmy.ml]

Can you please provide any data where Signal has been compromised? I'm not saying that the possibility doesn't exist, but I've certainly never seen one single instance where Signal was compromised, so please do share.

[bigfab@lemmy.world]

What are the biggest threats in telegram? Corporations, widespread scams or individual ppl closer to me?

[kekmacska@lemmy.zip]

telegram has a lot of illegal stuff on it. Plus the ceo has been caught and this way, the whole thing was compromised

[somegeek@programming.dev]

The open source client doesn't mean jack shit dude.
Telegram also has open source client.
Your data lives on their servers not clients and also, even if the server code is open source, there are many ways for a backdoor and violations of privacy in the infrastructure. When you give up your phone number, there is no privacy.

[index@sh.itjust.works]

Go ahead and send me your phone number. If you don't want to do it please provide data that i'm compromised.

[bigfab@lemmy.world]

Okey, but I mean what are the threats to my privacy if I use telegram?

[kekmacska@lemmy.zip]

your data can land at french police, who caught Pavel Durov. i only use telegram to track custom rom updates, for that it is fine. but don't use it for private conversations

[activist@lemm.ee]

why did they told you not to use signal

[bigfab@lemmy.world]

That is a shame, but still not a big surprise. In comparison Apple has been sharing all kind of iPhone push notifications with the US government. I guess no other app will save your privacy from gvt.
iPhone notifications to US gvt.