If you are organizing folks in Minneapolis right now, you may find this guide to Signal for beginners by @mshelton useful: https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-beginners/

[secret_squirrel@mastodon.social]

@clock @evacide @mshelton Intercept what? Your cell provider knows your number, your IMEI, your approximate location. No interception necessary.

[billyjoebowers@mastodon.online]

@evacide @mshelton

Signal notifies you when someone in your contacts list signs up, and I get a notice every week or two.

[ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social]

@evacide @mshelton

Signal is centralised and was attempted backdoored by the uks online safety bill and saved by signal threatening to walk. Simplex is open source and quantum resistant e2ee like signal and also has its secret group chats and metadata protection like Signal but SimpleX is also decentralised with ip protection, tor support, no persistent id basically "a burner phone for every contact"
Signals centralisation also makes it more vulnerable to total censorship, all you need to do is block signals domains, being a decentralised network SimplexChat has no single point of failure to censor and anyone can run their own relay node

#PSA #E2EE #Privacy #Encryption #Anonymity #Signal #SimpleX #UnitedKingdom #OnlineSafetyAct #Censorship

[drrjv@vmst.io]

@evacide @mshelton Another option: #Meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org

[starraven@mastodon.scot]

@clock @evacide @mshelton

Using Amazon servers that are likely easily scraped by Palantir or something similar. Couldn't pay me to use Signal in this political environment. Session is better.

[risottobias@toot.risottobias.org]

@evacide @mshelton thank you both

[opensourceopenmind@social.vivaldi.net]

@drrjv @evacide @mshelton and @briar and #BitChat

#Briar

[ipd@universeodon.com]

@evacide @mshelton

Am not in Minneapolis, but I still want to understnd it, so thanks.

[ipd@universeodon.com]

@evacide @mshelton

Very good tootorial,
Consice, simple, useful, no fluff.
It tells you what to expect when you do this.

[pdd@mastodon.social]

@evacide @mshelton every time I see your posts:

[powerfromspace1@mstdn.social]

@evacide @mshelton