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Is it? People at risk of state surveillance would usually switch to GPG or OTR with FLOSS apps before, and usually throw proprietary stuff from their devices.

Now, they use Signal.

I'm not sure if that's more secure. In fact, I'd argue Signal is less secure.

Moxie himself has argued before that the intention of Signal is not to be more secure than these options, but to be a solution that everyone can use that's more secure than Telegram/The old WhatsApp protocol without Axolotl/etc.



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