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Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill::Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, the organization that maintains the Signal messaging app, spoke about the U.K.'s controversial new privacy bill at TC Disrupt 2023.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes. But signal is the gold standard, it's going to be hard to get your contacts onto any other platform.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

Reviews the options nicely, I use briar, it's rough around the edges. But it does the job.

I've been meaning to try simple x, but I haven't given it a go yet.

You can follow the privacy guides guide on hardening signal, it's useful. Net net the easiest thing to do is disable your PIN, and ask any friends you're speaking with to disable their PIN.

https://blog.privacyguides.org/2022/07/07/signal-configuration-and-hardening/#signal-pin

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Simplex is working pretty well for me. One of the people I chat with has an apple device so briar wasn't an option, otherwise that's probably what we would be using.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Okay, thanks. I'll read both of those articles and for now disable my pin on signal and talk to my contacts.