Some are quick to promote apps as being safe for your use just because they are encrypted. I will talk about how many of the popular apps that are commonly t...
Because “slightly less” is a subjective measure that’s relative to how pedantic we want to get.
Even XMPP is a “slightly less” bad option, in the sense that you are still targetable when using a sufficiently advanced method, and you are still not free of risk.
Even hosting your own instance you give away the IP, if you don’t host it then you do have to trust the host, since it does store metadata (maybe more so than Signal).
Because “slightly less” is a subjective measure that’s relative to how pedantic we want to get.
Even XMPP is a “slightly less” bad option, in the sense that you are still targetable when using a sufficiently advanced method, and you are still not free of risk.
Even hosting your own instance you give away the IP, if you don’t host it then you do have to trust the host, since it does store metadata (maybe more so than Signal).