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 Florencia (she/her)   ( @florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago

Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app

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Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app

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 Florencia (she/her)   ( @florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago
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Keeping your chats secure is a good idea, but end-to-end encryption is just the beginning of the list of options to consider when picking a messaging app.
  •  shortwavesurfer   ( @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ) 
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    I use signal myself but I also use simple X. I can’t use delta chat because I use proton for my email and therefore can’t use delta.

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      Delta Chat is not associated with your email account, as far as I can tell. Am I wrong?

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        https://delta.chat/en/

        ⚡️ Sign up to secure fast chatmail servers or use classic e-mail servers

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          You don’t have to use a “classic email server”, or even link your account to your current email address at all. The default onboarding procedure actually creates a new anonymous account for you on the default chatmail server. Reading through the site, I can’t actually even tell why someone would want to use their preexisting email address.

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            Ah, okay. I think I heard about it at an earlier point where it was only using your current email.

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              Yeah, that’s when I first used it too, it had to go through your email. Now it just uses the email backbone to send messages back and forth. Also, self-contained webxdc apps you can use with people in your chat, which is kinda cool.

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