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

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My understanding - largely based on this person's blog - is that Signal is the best secure messaging app that exists today: https://soatok.blog/2024/07/31/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-sig...

Soatok wrote a blog about this specific incident yesterday. Signal may have the most reliable E2EE, but that isn't the only security step required to secure the most sensitive information. https://soatok.blog/2025/03/25/the-practical-limitations-of-...

Nope. The US military has better (or at least more secure) messaging systems.

... based on Microsoft Lync :-) Yes, what a step forward.

no, simplex chat is https://simplex.chat/

No, my RandomThingie is even *-er

Ain't no one using a chat app named after a virus I have on my lips.

But actually, I imagine there's significant friction to using a new "hyper-secure application" after the encrochat debacle.

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