Chapter 9 – Messengers

Chapter 9 – Messengers
Signal – Cutting edge of private communication, everyone should be on it, does require number
It has become the standard of messaging, and even has proxies for censorship circumvention. A lot of other apps are still not living up too such as where they store your info and what info is stored

“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.
Notably, things we don’t have stored include anything about a user’s contacts (such as the contacts themselves, a hash of the contacts, any other derivative contact information), anything about a user’s groups (such as how many groups a user is in, which groups a user is in, the membership lists of a user’s groups), or any records of who a user has been communicating with. All message contents are end-to-end encrypted, so we don’t have that information either.”
Not many apps can make a claim like that or back it up which signal has done via 3rd party audits and releasing their replies to warrants from agencies on user information. The one downside could be seen as the requirement for a phone number
https://signal.org/#signal
Session – Started as a Signal fork, does not require number, privacy focused sign up, messages are routed similar to how the tor network works. The best messenger for anonymity, as you do not need any info to sign up. It generates an ID that acts as an identifier. You will need someone elses ID to chat with them. It routes your traffic though multiple nodes on the Lokinet similar to how tor routes through their nodes (not 100% as of yet but will be in the future) A more simplified messenger can be used for groups as well, also does voice/video calls. https://getsession.org/