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What are the reasons to use Signal over Telegram (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Greetings!

A friend of mine wants to be more secure and private in light of recent events in the USA.

They originally told me they were going to use telegram, in which I explained how Telegram is considered compromised, and Signal is far more secure to use.

But they want more detailed explanations then what I provided verbally. Please help me explain things better to them! โœจ

I am going to forward this thread to them, so they can see all your responses! And if you can, please cite!

Thank you! โœจ

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[โ€“] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure. You can trust your own fork. Just don't use the official repos or their servers. The client isn't where the danger is.

[โ€“] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a server side and it is secret ?

[โ€“] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your client talks to their server, their server talks to your friend's client. They don't accept third party apps. The server code is open source, not a secret. But that doesn't mean it isn't 99% the open source code, with a few privacy breaking changes. Or that the server software runs exactly as implied, but that that is moot since other software also runs on the same servers and intercepts the data.

[โ€“] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do you mean the servers aren't guaranteed to be running the exact code that's on github ?