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Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 days ago

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Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …

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I thought they removed SMS so as to not give the impression that SMS is at all private or secure

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