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?
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.
I know what options signal provides. I also know the defaults
Should take what into account?