Trust me, I push Signal hard and even donate to it monthly. As I’m sure many of you know, there are always a few contacts who unfortunately refuse to use it.
In this case: do you prefer to use insecure SMS in something like QUIK SMS or Fossify Messages, or do you prefer to bite the Google bullet to get end-to-end encrypted messages (even if the metadata isn’t encrypted)?
I can see good arguments for both sides, so I am curious what Lemmy’s take is.
I have a dumb question: what’s to stop someone from creating a GPG based front end for any kind of unencrypted SMS? It could encrypt as you send and decrypt as you receive. If two people have each other’s keys isn’t that end to end encryption? Why would you need to rely on something that the OS or carrier is providing?
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.amnesica.kryptey/
Thanks!