Friends don’t let friends use messaging platforms that aren’t Signal. Especially not random third-rate platforms (or Telegram).

Remind the people in your circles who aren’t tech savvy. Technology can be hard if you don’t know it well. Heck, it’s hard if you do.

https://www.404media.co/a-secure-chat-apps-encryption-is-so-bad-it-is-meaningless/

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A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’

TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.

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