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Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development (aboutsignal.com)

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[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It really isn't, and recently there have been claims that WA has 3ssentially backdoored its encryption and can read everything.

[–] quantumvoid0@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

whats with big corps messing everything up.... why haven't people switched to FOSS yet

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Plenty of reasons: inertia, vendor lock-in network effect, lack of knowledge or awareness, or plain ol' stupidity.

But on a less pessimistic note: I'm pleased to say that I can reach pretty much all of my contacts via Signal these days. It's reached critical mass where I am.