Is it still viable to use Signal for privacy in 2026? It’s centralized, and has had many suspicious occurrences in the past.(Unopen source server code, careless whisper exploit which is still active as far as I know, and the whole mobile coin situation.)
Thoughts?
Not perfect (as recent news demonstrated) but still the standard The no-brainer choice for secure and private messaging
What’s the recent news?
Most likely this is referring to the case where they extracted messages from the notification history of an iPhone.
Which would be the situation with any app that has notifications that show content.
If you want to be perfectly safe here, you’d need to disable notification content. This has nothing to do with signal.
Oh yeah. As another comment pointed out. Users can control this by using hidden notifications. Not a sigbal issue.
For example https://www.heise.de/en/news/iOS-Deleted-Signal-data-extracted-by-FBI-via-notification-database-11252199.html
But as I said it still is the standard and it is hard to find a better alternative
This isn’t a signal issue, it’s a notification issue.
Literally any app that you allow to use notifications would do the same thing.
If you want this to be more secure, you have to turn off notifications.
And Signal should take that into account
They do
You can set it to show name + message, name only, or nothing. The last one means that you’d need to open the app to see what you were notified about.
Should take what into account?