Check: securemessagingapps.com rate 🟩=3 🟨=1 🟥=0 Results = 86 #ThreemaApp = most secure #Messenger 78 #SimpleX Chat 76 #Session 76 #Signal 66 #Wire 55 #Element / #Matrix 36 #Apple #iMessage 26 #Telegram 25 #WhatsApp 25 #Facebook Mess.
Might be a good time to download an encrypted, decentralized messaging app. Here’s some options:
Element Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Web element.io
Session Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux getsession.org
Wire Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Web wire.com
Threema Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux threema.ch
Ricochet Windows, macOS, Linux (Desktop only) ricochet.im
Check: securemessagingapps.com rate 🟩=3 🟨=1 🟥=0 Results = 86 #ThreemaApp = most secure #Messenger 78 #SimpleX Chat 76 #Session 76 #Signal 66 #Wire 55 #Element / #Matrix 36 #Apple #iMessage 26 #Telegram 25 #WhatsApp 25 #Facebook Mess.
$[x2 Indian government decrees that WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. must ensure continuous SIM binding with services]
Indian government has classified each of WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Arattai, Snapchat, ShareChat, JioChat, and Josh as a Telecommunication Identifier User Entity (TIUE)
TIUEs must fulfill a range of cybersecurity obligations
TIUEs must ensure that SIM cards remain continuously linked to their services, they must make it impossible for their users to use services without a SIM
For website or web-app-based access, TIUEs must ensure users are logged out periodically (not later than 6 hours) and must offer an option to relink accounts through a QR-code-based method
https://www.medianama.com/2025/11/223-dot-sim-binding-directions-to-whatsapp-and-telegram/
$[x2 Indian government decrees that WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. must ensure continuous SIM binding with services]
Indian government has classified each of WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Arattai, Snapchat, ShareChat, JioChat, and Josh as a Telecommunication Identifier User Entity (TIUE)
TIUEs must fulfill a range of cybersecurity obligations
TIUEs must ensure that SIM cards remain continuously linked to their services, they must make it impossible for their users to use services without a SIM
For website or web-app-based access, TIUEs must ensure users are logged out periodically (not later than 6 hours) and must offer an option to relink accounts through a QR-code-based method
https://www.medianama.com/2025/11/223-dot-sim-binding-directions-to-whatsapp-and-telegram/
"Here you'll find reviews and research about services and how they affect your #privacy both in person and online backed by real world findings and data collected from testing"
Some apps analysed include: 
🏆 @simplex ( @threemaapp seems to be an undisputed winner on other lists)
🥈 @briar
🥉 @cwtch
https://privacyspreadsheet.com/messaging-apps
EDIT: this info is controversial (see comments)
#matrix #telegram #xmpp #signal #whatsapp #threema #wire #zoom #CWTCH
RE: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115590212049280397
The crazy thing about that #WhatsApp leak is not merely the sheer scale of the issue...
...it's the fact that a security researcher named Loran Kloeze has found out and reported this #security flaw to #Facebook _eight years ago_ (2018) and Facebook has done... nothing!
Collecting huge amounts of data with WhatsApp - by Loran Kloeze
Also, the only news site that I could find talking about Loran Kloeze is 9to5mac - kudos to them! 🎩
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/18/whatsapp-security-flaw-exposed-3-5b-phone-numbers-including-yours/
What the actual f...k? How does a multibillion dollar company like #Meta not mitigate against this kind of historic data leak???
"3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete #WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated"
https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html?seite=all
New: #DeAppleification project 🍏
Good hardware, if overpriced ✔️
Bad software & services, deliberately lacking #interoperability ❌
Today, I shut off Apple's closed #iMessage service entirely. Now using #Beeper as a universal inbox, with #Signal, #WhatsApp & #Slack DMs ✅
Goal: shutting off all 🍏 services will make it much easier to switch to cheaper hardware in future. Which is why Apple’s entire business model depends on tying their hardware to their software & services
AI in WhatsApp
Lekker, onze betrouwbare vriend Suckerberg gaat z'n AI loslaten op WhatsApp om te analyseren hoe Nederlanders in het algemeen en jij in het bijzonder, nou precies communiceren. Kan-ie straks aan de schrijfstijl zien of een tekst van jou is of niet, een alom aanwezige grafoloog. Super handig, wat zou daar nou mis kunnen gaan? 👍️
AI in WhatsApp
Lekker, onze betrouwbare vriend Suckerberg gaat z'n AI loslaten op WhatsApp om te analyseren hoe Nederlanders in het algemeen en jij in het bijzonder, nou precies communiceren. Kan-ie straks aan de schrijfstijl zien of een tekst van jou is of niet, een alom aanwezige grafoloog. Super handig, wat zou daar nou mis kunnen gaan? 👍️
Less positively, Meta is rejecting #interoperability requests from non-messaging services, and business-focused services 🤨
Less positively, Meta is rejecting #interoperability requests from non-messaging services, and business-focused services 🤨
Baaaam! With #Beeper, "you can have multiple #Signal accounts and multiple #WhatsApp accounts, all in one device... We figured out how to make this all run locally on your device, and so it’s just as secure as using one of these native apps" https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source
Baaaam! With # Beeper, "you can have multiple #Signal accounts and multiple #WhatsApp accounts, all in one device... We figured out how to make this all run locally on your device, and so it’s just as secure as using one of these native apps" www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Why Matt Mullenweg went to war...
Baaaam! With # Beeper, "you can have multiple #Signal accounts and multiple #WhatsApp accounts, all in one device... We figured out how to make this all run locally on your device, and so it’s just as secure as using one of these native apps" www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Why Matt Mullenweg went to war...
Baaaam! With #Beeper, "you can have multiple #Signal accounts and multiple #WhatsApp accounts, all in one device... We figured out how to make this all run locally on your device, and so it’s just as secure as using one of these native apps" https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source
Well: #Signal could also choose to interoperate with #WhatsApp, at least in the European Economic Area, thanks to #DMA Art. 7 😉 /cc @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qdxfevnn55hicrntj6repflr/post/3lrqf6qqdqc2q
