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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Signal vs Telegram (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by swissreport@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What is better for privacy? Signal or Telegram? I know XMPP is better then both of them.

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[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All depends on your threat model though. Are you afraid of the security state, surveillance capitalism, or your local PD. Very different threat models, very different needs.

[–] testingthis@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Are you serious? It's not about pigs, even though they're often the first to put holes in systems compromising everyone. From that angle I suppose they are a threat to software in general. But privacy for the sake of privacy is correct, even.