Encrypted Messaging Survey
I am interested in your thoughts regarding encrypted messaging apps for the ordinary user. The use case is: typical user who is concerned about their privacy and has a family and social circle of people who use iOS and Android. As such, iMessage and RCS are off the table. Of the following, which would you recommend and why? Are there others that should be considered?
Thanks!
#infosec #privacy #encryptedmessaging #signalapp #whatsapp #threema #telegram #matrix #element #wireapp #wicker
@rstarman If it’s onboarding new users from your social circle, who aren’t especially tech savvy or privacy minded then Signal is the winner by a mile. You can have someone setup and talking with you over Signal in less then 5 minutes.
@picrypter @rstarman I convinced my whole company and all of my family to move to Element/Matrix. Registering a new account and starting to chat was done in a matter of minutes, thanks to Spaces which helps a lot with user discovery.
@picrypter @x_cli I’ve used it too in the past (primarily with a group of infosec practitioners). I’ve had no luck getting “regular” people to use it. Glad you had such success. I’ll need to try again
@picrypter @rstarman A friend of mine is using EMS to host a homeserver for their own domain and federation is working quite well, according to them. I cannot say it is perfect, but quite frankly, it is working as well as you could expect from a federated service, now.