In our last article, we took a look at Signal and Telegram, two giants in the encrypted communications industry, and compared some of their features as well as their security and privacy levels. Among other things, we also sort of sketched out two other messengers that are poised to become
This is the problem all messengers have that do not use some external ID like email or phone numbers. You first have to communicate over another channel to get started on that new app, unless of course you are physically present. Most people will do that over an insecure channel thus linking them to the account.
So much for “better privacy”.