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* '''[https://f-droid.org/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure/ Silence]''' ('''Overall Tip''') is a mobile app for SMS/MMS texting. In their own words - which I wholeheartedly agree with - it is easy, reliable, private, safe and <abbr title="essentially the same as free libre software, but developers who call their software open and not free usually care more about the practicality than the ethics of freedom">open source</abbr>. From silence to silence encryption works flawlessly - which is why I think everyone should use it. Otherwise at least the local storage of received and sent messages is encrypted. | * '''[https://f-droid.org/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure/ Silence]''' ('''Overall Tip''') is a mobile app for SMS/MMS texting. In their own words - which I wholeheartedly agree with - it is easy, reliable, private, safe and <abbr title="essentially the same as free libre software, but developers who call their software open and not free usually care more about the practicality than the ethics of freedom">open source</abbr>. From silence to silence encryption works flawlessly - which is why I think everyone should use it. Otherwise at least the local storage of received and sent messages is encrypted. | ||
* '''[https://www.signal.org/ Signal]''' is the perfect chat app to move to from Whatsapp. It works very similarly and is secure and private by default. I recommend downloading it from their site, not from Google Play, even though they recommend the opposite. ❗️ Signal is great, but like I said there is no perfect messenger app and Signal has downsides too. Messages are end-to-end encrypted, but the server is closed source and hosted on evil clouds. So the metadata (phone number, who writes to whom and when) is openly accessible by Amazon, Google, Microsoft & Cloudflare. | * '''[https://www.signal.org/ Signal]''' is the perfect chat app to move to from Whatsapp. It works very similarly and is secure and private by default. I recommend downloading it from their site, not from Google Play, even though they recommend the opposite. ❗️ Signal is great, but like I said there is no perfect messenger app and Signal has downsides too. Messages are end-to-end encrypted, but the server is closed source and hosted on evil clouds. So the metadata (phone number, who writes to whom and when) is openly accessible by Amazon, Google, Microsoft & Cloudflare. Read an extensive list of everything that might be wrong with Signal [https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues/779 here]. | ||
* Not a messenger, but a protocol messengers can converse with is '''Matrix'''. It's federated, so like the [[Fediverse]], and fully free software. You can choose a very privacy friendly server to create your account on and then download a messenger like '''[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ Element]''' and start messaging. | * Not a messenger, but a protocol messengers can converse with is '''Matrix'''. It's federated, so like the [[Fediverse]], and fully free software. You can choose a very privacy friendly server to create your account on and then download a messenger like '''[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ Element]''' and start messaging. | ||
* Another federated and free software protocol is XMPP. There are very many XMPP clients, e.g. '''[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.snikket.android Snikket]''' and '''[https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/ Conversations]'''. | * Another federated and free software protocol is XMPP. There are very many XMPP clients, e.g. '''[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.snikket.android Snikket]''' and '''[https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/ Conversations]'''. | ||