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Comment on Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?

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I think Signal is the only usable option for trusted fully e2e-encrypted messaging today. Even the military is using it in some countries.

look into SimpleX

Since I never heard of it before, I looked it up.

It's some website https://simplex.chat/ with some claims about privacy because they don't use user ID:s (uh).

Do explain to me why anyone should trust this sus russian project [1] over the well regarded Signal?

1: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/o... (proof of russian natinality of Evgeny Poberezkin)

Had more look and learned that their privacy claim about no user ID:s is false, as they expose user IP:s:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41381204

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