I still find the privacy argument incredibly vacuous in the context of direct messaging, same as with email. The issue isn't some NSA guy being thwarted by your

I still find the privacy argument incredibly vacuous in the context of direct messaging, same as with email. The issue isn't some NSA guy being thwarted by your encryption, it's the people you talk to either intentionally or accidentally leaking the content of your messages. For the average person the thoughtless forwarder or copyer of messages is a much bigger threat than any shadowy entity so I find these recommendations of trading convenience for 'security' very wrong. >"Your chats are there to read, maybe even by accident, like a postcard passing through a post office." in my opinion this is actually the only sane default assumption for any casual direct message or email format and the way security is framed is priming people for the wrong threat. The Verizon SMS guy is literally less likely to screw you over than whoever you're texting. Modern day's Stranger Danger.