$[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

Blue group of fully non technical folks are meeting and messaging on #Signal They are discussing moving to #Discord
I am looking for advice for secure messaging and video calls.
TIA since I know nothing about Discord

#Security #Privacy #Encryption #Messaging #uspol

With Germany poised to change its stance and approve Chat Control, digital privacy end looms in the EU

Companies that take privacy seriously, such as Signal and Tuta are issuing statements of positions regarding the topic.

TL:DR the differences between those two and all the rest are STARK.

Both Signal and Tuta state they will sue or leave EU.

And that is how you choose which businesses to support.

#ChatControl #EU #Privacy #Signal #Tuta

With Germany poised to change its stance and approve Chat Control, digital privacy end looms in the EU

Companies that take privacy seriously, such as Signal and Tuta are issuing statements of positions regarding the topic.

TL:DR the differences between those two and all the rest are STARK.

Both Signal and Tuta state they will sue or leave EU.

And that is how you choose which businesses to support.

#ChatControl #EU #Privacy #Signal #Tuta

@echo_pbreyer Du verlierst nicht alle Kontakte weil z. B. #Signal abgeschaltet wird, Du verlierst nur einen möglichen Kommunikationskanal.

#Threema hat seinen Sitz & Server in der Schweiz und unterliegt somit keinerlei EU (Un-)Recht bzgl. #Chatkontrolle. "Fest steht jedoch, dass es nie eine Threema-Version geben wird, die ihre Nutzer in irgendeiner Form abhört oder überwacht." threema.com/de/blog/chat... #Whatsapp #Signal #Messenger

Die Chatkontrolle muss gestopp...

Introducing Signal Secure Backups, https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/.

#signal #messaging #privacy

Introducing Signal Secure Backups, https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/.

#signal #messaging #privacy

We've been using #Element / #Matrix in production in our company for 7 years now, maintain secondary emergency channel on #Signal.

Element is not perfect, has some questionable UX calls, some moments of "Why on earth would anyone..." - but truth is, I have far more such moments with #Slack and Element works "well enough."

Also know #Teams from some customers... and yeah, it's also really not great.

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...

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

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

There's a "Signal deanonymized" thing going around:
https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117

Stay calm. Deep breaths.

👉 while this is a real consideration, the only thing the attacker gets from this is a very rough (kilometers or tens of kilometers radius) location

👉 other communication platforms that use any kind of caching CDN to deliver attachments are just as affected

👉 you almost certainly should continue to use Signal, unless you specifically know that this is a big problem for you.

#Signal #InfoSec