cross-posted from: https://kbin.projectsegfau.lt/m/tech@kbin.social/t/26889

Google just announced that all RCS conversations in Messages are now fully end-to-end encrypted, even in group chats. RCS stands for Rich Communication Services and is replacing traditional text and picture messaging, providing you with more dynamic and secure features. With RCS enabled, you can share high-res photos and videos, see typing indicators for your…

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To my knowledge, Signal is the only verifiably secure encrypted messaging app that’s market ready. Signal is fully open source, including its encryption algorithm which has been tested numerous times and even gotten government agencies like the FBI all butthurt that can’t break it or get a backdoor from the devs. I have a friend whose cryptography professor contributed to the project.

It was only in recent years that Signal upped their game enough with the user experience for me to start recommending it to friends and family. In 2013, when I first recall trying it out, Signal was more clunky and always wanted to be your default SMS app. I didn’t like that, because at the time they didn’t have a client to send messages from your computer.

Nowadays they have an desktop app that syncs with your phone, video calling, and even stories – which some people find weird but I’m all for non-Zuccubus owned private and secure alternatives to social media. I’m pretty sure anyone on Lemmy would love to pull more power away from these surveillance based ad companies and stop being data cows.

Tl;dr: Fuck the Zuck, keep promoting Signal, democratize the internet

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What’s wrong with Matrix? I use both, just wondering

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It tends to leak a lot of metadata unlike signal which keeps it to a minimum

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The way I see it is, we don’t always want anonymity. Sometimes privacy is enough and this is where Signal shine.

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Late reply, but my main sticking point with Matrix is that it isn’t just an app you can tell your non-tech savvy friends to download. I like the decentralization, but most people don’t care and want something easy to understand and use

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You don’t need to download it, there’s a web version.

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Why not Wire?

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