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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Signal is good, but requires phone number

There are ways around that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I found SimpleX Chat to be a fairly decent alternative without phone numbers.