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Arguments why Telegram is not a good idea for anyone
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People always going on about signal, but it still requires phone number, but never hear talk of threema, threema is reasonably solid choice for privacy.
hm I dont really agree on this. it is a swiss service (i think) but it is all closed source so that is a red-flag for me (if talking about privacy or transparency).
Yeah good point, the closed source def is not ideal. Hmm back to signal as best option??
well I'd say signal is one of the best options as there are many others. Regarding the phonenumber: as far as I know, it is stored hashed so signal does not really know your phonenumber. so this would not concern me.
I'm always advocating for Signal, but I'm worried for the time their billionaire-backing eventually runs out.