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It's not a good look for the blog author when they suggested using Signal and WhatsApp, proprietary but open-source apps.
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battle tested?Signal is not propietary. And in terms of security the Signal protocol is the best with diferenre you can get out there.
Signal is validated over sms and uses a ton of Google APIs. I'll pass.
Okey, I agree on the fact that their server and client may be far from perfect. But the only problem with their protocol is that it's not decentralised.