Blastoidea
Well said! I don't know who to quote on this one but "don't let perfection be the enemy of progress". If I can convince someone to learn about PGP Great! If I can get them to use signal awesome! If I can get them to wrap their head around why something like E2EE is important but they're stuck on using whatsapp, that's fine too.
My experience in trying to spread awareness on security & privacy has been that there is nothing wrong with incremental improvements and pushing too much complexity on a newcomer is the best way to drive them straight into the arms of blissful ignorance, which is the worst possible outcome.

Blastoidea The Senate and their staff have been ordered by their chief of security to use Signal - and they already have hardened, more secure government cell phones (I always wonder what they do for that and if it is more secure than GOS. Heck, maybe they use GOS).

    AlanZ

    Indeed, unfortunately It's a function that is missed in signal.

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    AlanZ Hopefully this is will be addressed soon, but you also aren't met by a completely empty contact list. Phone numbers are there for a reason, but good on Threema for making both approaches work, although my contact list is still at zero, just like it was when I first purchased it.

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    People looking at XMPP might be interested to read XMPP: Admin-in-the-middle by now defunct Infosec Handbook and associated HN discussions here and here. It mostly applies to using third party servers, not hosting your own.

    zzz
    No link able sources, but read about Australia and encryption.

    US politicians are no better than Australian politicians, to say the least.

    And “our” government is constantly dinging them to “take action” on the “problem” of encryption for the citizenry.

      supersonic My 0.02 cents. Creator of ,,tinfoil chat'' which is a really secure communicator, has a long reddit history of saying unpleasant things about SimpleX. Sadly i cant say much specyficaly as i was reading this long time ago