It’s well known that NSA and also maybe others have already broken encryption algorithms in many applications. idk about Signal tho.
Trust leads to the dark side
I thought it was open source.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
This doesn’t prevent them from running different software or logging requests, but we have unsealed court orders, which is better than most other services that could receive them.
The server is Foss. However, that means nothing as you still be using it. Best to not trust it and use ee2e which is what Signal does.
Signal is really a fancy version of SMS and MMS. It does require a phone number but contacts don’t need that you contact you. There are better options from a anonymity perspective but they aren’t as user friendly and popular.
Imo, I think Signal is a good “normie-oriented secure messenger”, but I think Simplex is more worthy of focus.
I convinced my non-tech nerd partner to switch to Matrix and it’s been working suprisingly well for us.
The only one I trust is Briar.