""""Private""""

>>61496723
>2017
>privacy
Yeah no

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>>61496723
>2017
>signal
have you looked who's behind it?

Moxie Marlinspike aka Matthew Rosenfeld aka Mike Benham

who knows how many aliases this fraud has.

>>61496723
>hidefagging
Embracing the botnet is the digital divide of this decade

>>61496723
>supposedly cares about privacy
>uses Android
thanks for a laugh dude.

>>61496723
It's a fucking messager and VoIP app, what do you want it to do
>he doesn't have a ROM with privacy guard

>>61496914
He's crypto has been audited heavily, so we can assume that it's safe. However, using a centralised service with it is ridiculous when other implementations such as OMEMO exists.

"google"

>>61496723
NOTHING TO HIDE NOTHING TO FEAR

>>61496723
>Device and App History
okay, yeah, why does this need to be here?
>Identity
I think this includes your phone number, and obviously Google Account. Maybe partially necessary
>Calendar
Yeah this is unnecessary. why does a messenger need your calendar? Unless you can send iCalendar invites or something.
>Contacts
This is needed in a chat application
>Location
Correct, this is not needed for functionality, probably purely tracking
>SMS
Obviously a necessity for messaging
>Phone
Needed, just like SMS
>Photos/Media/Files
If you're going to send stuff it needs access
>Camera
So you can take pictures and send directly without going through your gallery

So in reality, it doesn't have a horrible excess of permissions. Has a couple questionable ones.

Still...
>2017
>Android
>not BBOS 10

>>61497296
>so we can assume that it's safe
you can't assume shit. you have no idea if what's in app is the same as what they disclosed.

>>61496914
He isn't a fraud, he is just making some compromises to try to get the system to a state where normies can use it without having to worry about communicating keys via side channels etc.

>>61497744
Read what was written. The crypto is safe, the service itself is not.

>>61497496
I just checked all those permissions; calendar and location permissions are granted, but never been used, and I've had the app for two years