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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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This is why signal is so great. It's open source and easily forked.

Which is also it's greatest flaw. Like Linux. Anyone can throw some garbage together. But anyone can throw some brilliance together too