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Most of Signal's "competitors" don't just keep a plaintext database of every pair of users that have communicated, they keep a plaintext database of every conve
by lukeschlather 4y ago
Most of Signal's "competitors" don't just keep a plaintext database of every pair of users that have communicated, they keep a plaintext database of every conversation. (GChat is at least good about making expiring conversations visible and easy.)
There's not necessarily "alternatives" most of the competitors offer a much richer feature set and Signal has stripped away those features down to what they see as the bare minimum.
- tptacek 4y agoIt would be more accurate to say that Signal has stripped its features down to those it can implement safely without keeping serverside databases of communications metadata. It's surprisingly hard to do that, and so Signal has noticeably fewer features than things like Matrix, which suffered calamitous security vulnerabilities as a result.