Alright telling consumers to ditch the most widely-used e2e messaging platform won’t make them more secure. They’re not going to switch over to Signal, they’re going to go directly to Facebook messenger or texts or something worse.
I’d rather my parents stuck to WhatsApp where Facebook slurped their personal information (that they likely already have), while keeping the end-to-end security on their actual communications.
I don’t mean to say that those of us that actually care about privacy should use it instead of Signal, but this kind of click-bait misses the nuances of the issue and will only contribute to the widespread erosion of consumer privacy and security.
Also, Signal is just an inferior product for day-to-day usage. It constantly refuses to deliver messages to/from iPhone for me.
These things matter, as I can understand and commiserate with product bugs, but my family trying to figure out where to pick me up from the airport cannot.
Alright telling consumers to ditch the most widely-used e2e messaging platform won’t make them more secure. They’re not going to switch over to Signal, they’re going to go directly to Facebook messenger or texts or something worse.
I’d rather my parents stuck to WhatsApp where Facebook slurped their personal information (that they likely already have), while keeping the end-to-end security on their actual communications.
I don’t mean to say that those of us that actually care about privacy should use it instead of Signal, but this kind of click-bait misses the nuances of the issue and will only contribute to the widespread erosion of consumer privacy and security.
Also, Signal is just an inferior product for day-to-day usage. It constantly refuses to deliver messages to/from iPhone for me.
These things matter, as I can understand and commiserate with product bugs, but my family trying to figure out where to pick me up from the airport cannot.