To be clear: I am avidly pro-Signal. I think this piece makes interesting arguments. Would love to hear what the community thinks

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I’m confused, did you think Signal’s SMS were E2EE? They were just regular SMS, identical in any way to how they were sent outside of signal. There was zero privacy advantage in sending an SMS from a signal client compared to another client.

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      1 year ago

      No, I never thought that. It’s why I used Silence instead which did (and technically still does, even those development for it is dead) SMS encryption.

      People were calling for Signal to do SMS encryption for ages (for the above mentioned lack of data) but Signal refused to implement it. Hence why Silence was started.

      Thankfully data is a little better now in some places but still doesn’t change the fact that for some, SMS is the only practical means of communication and they deserve E2EE as much as anyone else, even if it doesn’t completely protect them.