Signal, only because it is open source and therefore less likely to contain giant security flaws that remain unfixed for extended periods of time and less likely to be explicitly spyware.
I don't trust any of those. Retroshare. Use chat programs over Tor and VPN instead.
I use signal strictly for family comm. but set use telegram for “other” private locked group chat. Have not heard of wickr.
The fashy goys are almost all on Telegram.
Isn't Signal owned by that Twitter jew? Never heard of Wickr
Telegram requires a phone #. Issue is, if you use a burner number and telegram rejects it, it locks out your ability to register for hours or even days.
Good luck.
Signal requires a phone number as well.
There's also Wire and Riot (now is called Element).
Never used it. Does it do the lock out thing?
I have no idea. It uses your phone as the crypto-broker for your connection, even if you're on a desktop. I have zero interest in it for that reason, and because there's no way I'm going to get any family that lives in rural cellular no-go zones to even consider it.
I use Threema because it doesn't need a telephone number nor does it search your contacts. It's closed source, based in Switzerland, but I don't care. I works well.
Signal gets money from Twitter and Telegram has the servers in the middle east, so fuck of them.
privacytools.io (privacytools.io) recommends Signal - i'm not sure that Telegram does end-to-end encryption
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