Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Simplifiedprivacy dot com needs to be blacklisted from Lemmy communities, it's a blog trying to sell some really silly services.
As for Session, they've never made an original product that I've ever seen - they took Signal and Monero, peeled off the labels, and made them (especially Signal, IMO) worse in both aesthetics and privacy protection.
And the company behind this is in Australia, a country where you need to weaken products (by adding backdoors) upon government request.
Session is very much not a clone of Signal. They forked it way back and the entire back end and front end are different. Session uses the lokinet behind the scenes which stores messages encrypted and routes traffic. Session isn't completely decentralized to my knowledge as its a work in progress but for now it is harder to block or censor compared to signal.
Even if you have your doubts, its been audited and found to be reasonably secure so it shouldn't be a security risk. I still don't use it due to its lack of invites but if they add stable calls I might just switch. For now I use it to send text between my devices.
For sending data I recommend wormhole or localsend, makes way more sense
Sorry, I meant text
Localsend can also do text!
An alternative that I use is QR codes
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I have Session. Given that it's a fork of Signal and more anonymous I'm inclined to trust it from a privacy standpoint but can't say I have the knowledge to really critique it's tech. People aren't really on there yet, at least nobody I know, so I don't have much use for it yet but I would if it catches on a bit more at some point.
It is not a fork of signal. They use the Signal protocol for encryption and probably the way messages are composed, thats basically it.