Is it still viable to use Signal for privacy in 2026? It’s centralized, and has had many suspicious occurrences in the past.(Unopen source server code, careless whisper exploit which is still active as far as I know, and the whole mobile coin situation.)

Thoughts?

  • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    I hadn’t actually looked into the project, and just responded, with a knee-jerk reaction, to a no-name Signal fork.

    Having glanced at it now, I can confidently say “lol. lmao”.

    We took out the Perfect Forward Secrecy and replaced it with Blockchain™.

    Founder and CTO is 12 and wants to talk to you about Buttcoin.