I use signal to talk to my army buddies because it's free and encrypted, hands down the best option. But make no mistake, these apps are only as secure as the device they are used on, and the NSA has access to every single electronic device connected to the internet, the Snowden documents prove that and those documents were a decade old, the access they have now is probably mind-blowing.
It is more that the hardware is/can be compromised, the ANT catalog was from 2008. The hard reality is that it doesn't matter how 'secure' signal is when your keystrokes, camera, mic, and everything your screen sees is not. Snowdens release is what made me give up on really any serious encryption.
I use signal to talk to my army buddies because it's free and encrypted, hands down the best option. But make no mistake, these apps are only as secure as the device they are used on, and the NSA has access to every single electronic device connected to the internet, the Snowden documents prove that and those documents were a decade old, the access they have now is probably mind-blowing.
It is more that the hardware is/can be compromised, the ANT catalog was from 2008. The hard reality is that it doesn't matter how 'secure' signal is when your keystrokes, camera, mic, and everything your screen sees is not. Snowdens release is what made me give up on really any serious encryption.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog