Why? Because if you travel, a regular text SMS message involves charges and if you are in an area with poor reception, it may not even get there.
Enter Telegram and or Signal.
They work off wifi/network, can make fully encrypted voice and video calls, messages have set time-outs (self-deletes).
They just make so much more sense. They have no disadvantages, only advantages. They only caveat is both parties have to use the same app.
Signal -> Signal; Telegram-> telegram.
There are others too, like whatsapp but it's owned by Facebook and monitors everything you do, up to the charge level of your battery. A major security hole. Signal collects no metadata.
And they run on Linux. Admittedly the Debian/buntu branch are easier to install on, thought I got the redhat branch working too.
Enter Telegram and or Signal.
They work off wifi/network, can make fully encrypted voice and video calls, messages have set time-outs (self-deletes).
They just make so much more sense. They have no disadvantages, only advantages. They only caveat is both parties have to use the same app.
Signal -> Signal; Telegram-> telegram.
There are others too, like whatsapp but it's owned by Facebook and monitors everything you do, up to the charge level of your battery. A major security hole. Signal collects no metadata.
And they run on Linux. Admittedly the Debian/buntu branch are easier to install on, thought I got the redhat branch working too.
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