1. ’s Signal is a great encryption app, but as more journalists use it we are struggling to be wise about protecting sources.
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2. Currently Signal does not allow users to message people not in their address books. Many sources don’t want to put a journalist in there.
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3. Signal encrypts your contacts locally - does not store them. But many people sync their contacts with work computers.
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I've been looking into Signal as a tool I could use. Are there any other / similar / better options I ought to look at?
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just so it's in-thread: shipped an update 2/16 that allows messaging to people not currently in contacts!
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It’s not exactly cheap but what about a second phone for comms with key sources?
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The opposite more likely. They'll need a special license to use the opensource code in their proprietary apps.
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requires no divulging of contact data of any kind other than a randomly generated alphanumeric ID!
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Why would it be? Wire re-wrote the entire code in Rust on their own dime and yet OWS demanded $2m for nothing.
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