Hey. Thanks for getting back. So, you're basically saying TextSecure is the real thing (unsurprisingly) and that it might just add the UX related stuff (multip

Hey. Thanks for getting back. So, you're basically saying TextSecure is the real thing (unsurprisingly) and that it might just add the UX related stuff (multiple devices, devices that .. well .. don't have a phone number) later. I'm still unconvinced. I can follow your argument if we're talking crypto only (Disclaimer: I .. shouldn't talk about crypto). So, ignoring Telegram again, TextSecure is putting encryption first. Great. Except that I don't see a way to remove the base assumption here. "Your identifier is a mobile number". That is absolutely crap. Both for UX reasons (see above and up-thread, devices that I own that cannot claim my mobile number) and .. because I don't want to share my mobile number for random IM chats. Again: Yes, my mobile number _might_ uniquely identify me. No, that is not a cool 'user name' in any sort of messaging app. I fail to understand how TextSecure can go from this fatal and flawed assumption and .. fix that. It's broken. The encryption might be sound, but the idea is crap. Granted, I'm not the best programmer and far from a crypto expert, but .. it seems to me as if changing this fundamental assumption would be hard to do for TextSecure. Their partnership with WhatsApp makes it worse, because those guys do the same insane bullshit and just tell your mom, your ex and your aunt twice removed that you're now available to chat on WhatsApp. Let me state it differently: I have TextSecure installed. I cannot run it. It is, at this point, utterly unusable. I wouldn't know how I could market this to friends or family, because it is unusable. How can we fix that? How can we - again, I've never installed or used that one, but it's the thread's topic right now - approximate Telegram?