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What is your preferred message app?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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What message app(s) do you use for public vs private life? Our preferrences.
Public: Telegram or Signal, Whatsapp at an *absolute* push.
Private: Wickr and Wire.
We don't use anything that is not entirely encrypted for anything private or personal. |
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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago
Solihull and Brentwood |
Skype, WhattsApp and KIK....Which I'm not keen on. As you can get a message and not know until, you next decide to open the KIK app. (Plus the adverts are a PITA.)
Not used wire or telegram. So keeping a beedy one on this thread.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You only need to research Encro chat, Skye ee and anomis to see that anything can be defeated. Whether that is the actual encryption or the server.
For that reason I use Speckled Jim my trusted carrier pigeon. Messages take longer to deliver but they struggle to cell site him in flight ?? |
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By *ack688Man
over a year ago
abruzzo Italy (and UK) |
Signal, telegram and WhatsApp for ‘normal’ stuff, then kik for other stuff and random groups. The ads on kik have become a pain but I’ve used it so much for years that it’s not easy to look at moving to a different platform |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You only need to research Encro chat, Skye ee and anomis to see that anything can be defeated. Whether that is the actual encryption or the server.
For that reason I use Speckled Jim my trusted carrier pigeon. Messages take longer to deliver but they struggle to cell site him in flight ??"
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WhatsApp or telegram. Telegram preferably.
I used to use kik but it just freezes every time I open the app, and I keep getting “18 year old girls” from Texas asking if I want to see their pics. It’s gone a bit south.
But love the stickers in telegram, they’re proper dirty |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Do you mean in relation to Fab or just in general?
I like iMessage and WhatsApp. I don’t have Kik, Snapchat etc.
If I like and trust a guy enough, I’ll give him my number in due course, after chatting for a while (on here) and building up a rapport. Chances are, we’d be planning a meet too. If it’s unlikely to get to that point, then I wouldn’t have wanted to chat with him anyway, so Kik would be pointless.
Not sure if that makes sense |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Do you mean in relation to Fab or just in general?
I like iMessage and WhatsApp. I don’t have Kik, Snapchat etc.
If I like and trust a guy enough, I’ll give him my number in due course, after chatting for a while (on here) and building up a rapport. Chances are, we’d be planning a meet too. If it’s unlikely to get to that point, then I wouldn’t have wanted to chat with him anyway, so Kik would be pointless.
Not sure if that makes sense "
This makes perfect sense.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"WhatsApp (mainly) and Telegram have kik but like others found adds are a pain.. "
They were bought out ages ago. They had issues (I don’t know what) but they were about to discontinue over some privacy issues. 11th hour someone bought them with promises of changing things…they added ads.
*And someone started a thread with useless facts, I could have posted this there, I know.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Whatsapp or Telegram. Kik was good back in the day when it had the video call option and it was ad free, not it’s just an absolute pain in the arse. I like apps where you can voicenote, sometimes due to laziness, sometimes because you can’t convey something properly in a text |
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Dumped Kik, it’s absolutely terrible! Notifications are inconsistent, it crashes regularly and the ads are a total pain in the ass, let alone the regular bot messages.
Telegram seems to be better than signal as you can assign a username, so if you don’t want to give out your phone number it’s a great alternative. It works just like WhatsApp. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I like it here, anyone trying to get me off a site (any) has almost invariable been a scam of some sort (if I’m asked to use hangouts, it’s an instant block and drop).
The encryption thing is interesting (and a sort of work expertise area) but remember occam’s razor, the simplest hack is the most likely, no one is going to decrypt your message just to see Tits. Far more likely that the person you are talking to isn’t trustworthy rather than the technology |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Wow, so many are actually still using kik even after all the identity theft, data collection (and sale to 3rd parties), and consistently scoring the lowest of any security rating possible.
Telegram groups/rooms are not the safest thing as all the chat/pics are stored unencrypted on their servers. User to user messages are safe because the server does not store a copy of the encryption key. Whatsapp does store a copy so kinda pointless....
It's interesting to see the comments that are basically "I've nothing to hide" when it's not about that. When companies can snoop on your messages it is not a person doing the snooping it is the all mighty `Algorithm`. Unless it is blatantly illegal and the company can get into trouble all they care about is how to sell your data profile.
Yes, technically given enough time and computer recourses, end to end device encryption can be brute force decrypted. The real monetary cost involved is higher than any rewards making it a moot point. |
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