[kwlug-disc] Secure IM news

[Chamunks]

If your SO is your only Signal contact yer not tryin hard enough. :P

That said I think you're right it would be ideal that we try and find a
system that they can't have one centralized location to squat in and
collect our metadata.  I think that at this point though having a properly
encrypted means / standard of conversation we can work on tools that wrap
around Signal or something that provides anonymity.  Although federation
would definitely be ideal.  I think that it's kind of frustrating that I
must have a cell phone number in order to validate my Signal account.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:31 AM locklin.jason at gmail.com <
locklin.jason at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:02:33 +0000
> CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just installed Signal on my Android phone a couple of weeks ago.  It
> runs
> > nice, but of course I'm the only person in my SMS list who uses security
> of
> > any form...  :(
>
> My SO is my only Signal contact. She doesn't care about this stuff, but
> Signal
> drop-in replaced her SMS app without any issues. The only hitch is data
> needs to
> be enabled to message me in particular. She likes that it does picture
> messages
> better than SMS though, and we have used the VOIP calling feature a couple
> times.
>
>
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