You absolutely should

Also include links to the human rights abuse done by the Chinese police. And the fact that South Korea almost just turned into a dictatorship.

At first, the F.B.I. and other investigators believed that China’s hackers used stolen passwords to focus mostly on the system that taps telephone conversations and texts under court orders. It is administered by a number of the nation’s telecommunications firms, including the three largest — Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. But in recent days, investigators have discovered how deeply China’s hackers had moved throughout the country by exploiting aging equipment and seams in the networks connecting disparate systems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/china-hacking-telecommunications.html

Doesn’t look like they know (or are willing to share specifics as to) the full scope of the hack, but they seem to have a pretty good idea.

And it's open source!

I've been leaning towards Matrix/Element, but I'll check out Signal and see what everyone else thinks. Thanks dood!

Whut? When is matrix not encrypted somtetimes? Genuine question - I'm a matrix newbie and i thought that all was encrypted was the whole point O.o

I'd argue Threema. The server code isn't open source, but the apps are auditable. You can use it without any other identifiers (phone number, email are optional). It comes from a private company, but they have had a good track record.

Edit: They also have a version on F-Droid, without proprietary components, that uses their own push protocol instead of Google's.

Oh. How fun. yay

Note even with all of this they only recommend they use encrypted messaging. We should merrily go along with fb messenger or sms or whatever they swear is good.

unfeathered

Bone apple tea?

Do you have a link to the report?

Sodium Tsunami.

This was caused by lowest bidder decision making. Along with a tolerance for critical systems designed, developed and manufactured outside of North America and Western Europe. If a country doesn’t have a history of liberal democracy, they can never be fully trusted.