Microblog post: "Family won't move our group chat to signal. Had to leave. Here comes the guilt trip ๐Ÿ˜’". Screenshot of a iMessage conversation with a contact named Mom: "Please come back to the group chat. We are making thanksgiving plans and we need your input." - "As I said in the group chat, you shouldn't be using iMessage. Signal is better Opsec. Once everyone starts taking that seriously you know where to find me." - "Gam Gam is 92. She barely knows how to use the phone she has." - "She needs to adapt"
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[โ€“] 21 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Would be better if Signal hadn't removed fucking SMS from their app

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Except no because that provides a false sense of security to people who don't understand how SMS works. Either you care about privacy or you dont. If you take privacy seriously you should't use sms perioid.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but it gives people that take security seriously an opportunity to move over people that don't. I had so many people moved over and most of them switched back to sms when it was dropped from signal. Now my options are pestering people I care to do something they don't want to, cut off contact, or suck it up and lose security myself.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 5 months ago

    Its funny. They cut it so non-technical people don't assume their message is secure when it isn't. But these people are now not going to adopt signal since they don't care and the convenience is more valuable than security.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I would like to use an E2E encrypted chat app today. I will now decide who to message.

    I would like to send Gam Gam a message. Which app was she using again? I'm not sure, I'll just use SMS.

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