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also on F-Droid you can find "Silence" which is a fork of "Signal" but only for SMS texts.

• jacobush 10y ago
  True, but you still need to be aware of who your potential adversary is. If it is someone with access to SMS network texts logs, these encrypted texts will light up like a Christmas tree for someone looking for something unusual.
  • em3rgent0rdr 10y ago
    The threat model is that google and cell phone networks are untrusted adversaries. So your same concern can be said about Signal messages going through Google servers under the surveillance of the NSA. Either way the adversary sees a bunch of suspicious encrypted messages, but can't read them. But if the user has proprietary google code installed on their phone (i.e. Google Play Services), then the backdoor which this blog is warning about is the fact that now your phone software is/could be potentially compromised.
    • jacobush 10y ago
      It depends on who you are hiding from. In some freer countries, encrypted texts at most get you flagged on some kind of list. In others you may get enhanced interrogation.