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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've had basically the same conversation with my sister who lives in Albania. I just want to use something encrypted like signal but she just refuses and says it's either WhatsApp or Facebook messenger. Cause of that I barely talk to her.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

WhatsApp is e2e encrypted. It uses the same tech as Signal.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

*allegedly

No one knows for sure, since WhatsApp is proprietary

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So are Signal's serverside components.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Uh, no? I don't know who told you this lie, but https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Btw it wouldn't even matter, since the encryption happens in the client app. The server basically just passes around encrypted pieces of data between devices.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The owner is a problem though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

bring fediverse flags to Eurovision then.