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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by dodgerdan on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:02PM (#33179834)
A few years ago I would have agreed, but right now Signal is doing just fine taking users from WhatsApp (FB TOS changes + ads + social group analysis)and Telegram (sketchy non-e2ee, Russian owned, based in the middle east).
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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by monetus on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:09PM (#33179956)
Weird, I am in the southeast U.S. and telegram is eating signal's lunch in the social networks here.
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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by dodgerdan on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:21PM (#33180104)
It’s a big pie, they’re also fairly different. And to be honest it’s only a matter of time before Telegram has a (public) security incident that drives much more people to E2EE messaging.
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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by monetus on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:11PM (#33180764)
I'm curious how long it will be before that public incident - they rolled their own cryptography right? With that, I would imagine that if it hasn't been pwned yet, then there would be a disproportionate amount of people trying to do so.
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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by brational on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:19PM (#33185081)
Rolled their own and off by default.
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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by stirfish on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:24PM (#33180144)
What people are concerned enough about a Terms of Service change to leave Whatsapp, but struggle with the unlocked icon next to "Insecure SMS" in Signal?

What people know that Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted, but think SMS is?

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