The app explicitly tells me to not use background polling, because it doesn't work well.
So either signal gets phone number or google gets the fact that I'm using session. Neither service can't see the contents of my messages.
Do you know much about signal analysis? Comparing these two systems, if I'm to trust session and use FCM as it recommends, session is leaking more data. Especially if Signal is combined with a VPN.
I will add, ... use Signal or Session for all I care. If you are using stock Android or iOS it doesn't even matter. End to End encryption or Google-enabled notifications means jack shit if someone can peak into your device itself, which isn't even a question at this point.
Stock Android, when rooted, is good enough. You can kill extra services, install perimeter control, and tighten up SELinux. If you need more than that, you should be using a burner.
If I was a Lawyer, Cybersec employee, or any other person that needed pressing information alongside security, your "unreliable argument" might be compelling.
However since I am using Session to speak with normal people in which our conversations are not imperative to receive notifications of, availability is not a big loss.
Don't even come at me with those three primary components if you're not going to use situations to weigh each component differently.
Signal has it's place. It offers things that Session doesn't.. like VOIP.
But you're pulling weak arguments against Session that frankly seem emotionally driven in defense of Signal.
If I was a Lawyer, Cybersec employee, or any other person that needed pressing information alongside security, your "unreliable argument" might be compelling.
However since I am using Session to speak with normal people in which our conversations are not imperative to receive notifications of, availability is not a big loss.
Are you joking?
Why would I bother with security if what I was communicating was so unimportant that I don't care about availability?
The app explicitly tells me to not use background polling, because it doesn't work well.
So either signal gets phone number or google gets the fact that I'm using session. Neither service can't see the contents of my messages.
Do you know much about signal analysis? Comparing these two systems, if I'm to trust session and use FCM as it recommends, session is leaking more data. Especially if Signal is combined with a VPN.
I don't use FCM and Signal doesn't have my number, so your logic doesn't apply to me.
So you go against session's advice about how to use it? Opting for the unreliable method?
Security has three primary components, Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Unreliable message delivery is an Availability failure.
This is just signal FUD from someone willing to accept a huge security fault, which you aren't disclosing up front.
I will add, ... use Signal or Session for all I care. If you are using stock Android or iOS it doesn't even matter. End to End encryption or Google-enabled notifications means jack shit if someone can peak into your device itself, which isn't even a question at this point.
GrapheneOS
CalyxOS
Those are your only options atm.
CalyxOS ships with Signal.
Stock Android, when rooted, is good enough. You can kill extra services, install perimeter control, and tighten up SELinux. If you need more than that, you should be using a burner.
That's a really weak argument.
If I was a Lawyer, Cybersec employee, or any other person that needed pressing information alongside security, your "unreliable argument" might be compelling.
However since I am using Session to speak with normal people in which our conversations are not imperative to receive notifications of, availability is not a big loss.
Don't even come at me with those three primary components if you're not going to use situations to weigh each component differently.
Signal has it's place. It offers things that Session doesn't.. like VOIP.
But you're pulling weak arguments against Session that frankly seem emotionally driven in defense of Signal.
Are you joking?
Why would I bother with security if what I was communicating was so unimportant that I don't care about availability?