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Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure (twitter.com)

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[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The HN discussion seems to be plagued by pretty uninformed positions.

"There is no Signal fork on F-Droid"

Molly (Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal) https://f-droid.org/packages/im.molly.app/

"Telegram is privacy-focussed"

E2e chats have to be created by long-pressing on a contact and then choosing a menu option. The default tap starts normal e2s chats. Group chats are e2s as well.

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

that f-droid link is 404

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Well, that's stupid. I used the F-Droid share feature. Here is a working one https://molly.im/download/fdroid/