![]() The Signal service does not store your phone number, ip, or any sort of metadata, for example they don’t know when you called and who you called. Signal doesn’t store any data away from you This organisation is also supported and funded by Brian Acton, one of What’s App founders who left his own company disenchanted by the way Facebook wanted to run it. The Freedom of the Press Foundation takes donations to support Signal, which make it an essential tools for reporters to communicate without any fear of being intercepted by an oppressive regime. Signal’s parent organisation, Signal Foundation, is entirely dedicated to privacy and cryptography, that’s their main objective and they run on donations, so you can rest assure that they are not going to sell your data, if they ever did something like that, their whole credibility would go down the drain. ![]() :-) It is truly free and wholeheartedly dedicated to privacy Of course your friends could copy those and store them somewhere else if they wanted to, but that requires work, and everyone is lazy. In Signal I often put an expiration date of one week or one day with my friends so we can tell each other whatever we want and feel at ease that there are no records anywhere past that time. I don’t like having private conversations in applications like What’s App where I know my messages will perdure for pretty much all eternity on someone else’s phone. So even if you only have two friends in Signal, it’s still worth installing. This is unlike other applications like WeChat, that are morbidly overbloated. Signal Messenger doesn’t use a lot of resources, memory, CPU, disk space, or battery. Just as easy as any other messaging application It is light You just download the app to your phone, link it your phone number, and that’s it. There is nothing complicated about Signal like there used to be in the past with secure forms of communication like PGP. Here are some reasons why I am adamant about using it: It is very easy to use It is very private, very simple and it is truly free. This for me is the case with Signal and why I have asked all of my friends to install it so we can communicate there. Everyone has something that they want to remain private for a variety of reasons and I am no different.īut sometimes living according to your principles and as close as you can to an ideal is possible and not very difficult. I am often shocked how little people seem to care about privacy, the cringeworthy sentence “I have nothing to hide” is said far too often and it is just no true. I hear this a lot from people these days, they reckon that no matter who you choose as your purveyor of technology and services, Google, Facebook, Huawei, is all the same. One could argue that idealism and living a highly principled life is unpractical, on the other hand it is easy to descent into cynicism and say “It’s all the same, there is nothing you can do”.
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