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It's a fork of SIgnal before it was bought out, removing all the Google services (Signal uses giigle cloud messaging services to send all messages). Nothing goes over "Data". It's all SMS/MMS, old-school infrastructure, with end-to-end encryption. Also, all messages are encrypted locally. If your device is compromised, the attacker would still need to spend the time decrypting your messages.

Silence focuses on SMS and MMS. This fork aims to:

  • Keep SMS/MMS encryption
  • Drop Google services dependencies (push messages are not available in Silence)
  • Integrate upstream bugfixes and patches from TextSecure

- Silence gitlab (git.silence.dev) -- (self hosted cersion control, nice touch)

It's a fork of SIgnal before it was bought out, removing all the Google services (Signal uses giigle cloud messaging services to send all messages). Nothing goes over "Data". It's all SMS/MMS, old-school infrastructure, with end-to-end encryption. Also, all messages are encrypted locally. If your device is compromised, the attacker would still need to spend the time decrypting your messages. > Silence focuses on SMS and MMS. This fork aims to: > * Keep SMS/MMS encryption > * Drop Google services dependencies (push messages are not available in Silence) > * Integrate upstream bugfixes and patches from TextSecure > \- [Silence gitlab](https://git.silence.dev/Silence/Silence-Android/) -- *(self hosted cersion control, nice touch)*

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I don´t think you understand it, Signal is a messenger and the app you make reference to is not. That app as your description quotes, it only encrypts SMS messages, it is not a messenger.