200
out of the loop, what's the problem with signal? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
158 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 262 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It's fine as long as you don't do something silly like invite a journalist to your top secret government group chat.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 86 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Or use a third party client that doesn't have as much scrutiny on the source code and will Leak your message s

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Would you say Molly is big/trustworthy enough for this to be negligible, or is it a huge risk? 

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Molly basically is a fork of the signal client that switches out some notification based things (such as your notifications going through fcm and such) and instead lets you use unifiedpush and/or a molly websocket. Apart from this they're both the same. Molly uses signal's codebase.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •