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I understand that it may be problematic sometimes but this was very smooth. I didn't even say anything.

A: what's your number for the whatsapp group Me: I don't have whatsapp because of facebook. B: ok, we have to use signal then A: ok

And that was it. Life can be very easy sometimes

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sms is also not secure, kinda not what signal is...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Signal started out as textsecure, an sms/mms app that encrypted your text messages. It quietly started sending messages over its server at one point after an update, but before that sms is what it was about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's interesting, I was always under the impression they were moving away from sms because they wanted a more secure client.