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FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity. Here's how to do it(www.usatoday.com)

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SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uk
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I don’t want WhatsApp & I avoid the 'stores, so it’s F-Droid options for me…

Any opinions on Jami?

I’m also seeing XMPP mentioned in the comments, so I might look at that a bit more…

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rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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Saving you the bother, Signal is good, but requires phone number and the desktop client sucks, while the generally recommended federated FOSS things are all over-engineered and morally obsolete. One can’t rework XMPP into a modern standard, and it’s complex. Actually Signal’s authors have published a couple of articles explaining their choices in making it.

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Nick@lemmy.world
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Signal is good, but requires phone number

There are ways around that

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hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
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I found SimpleX Chat to be a fairly decent alternative without phone numbers.

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