They’re going to react to people and media telling them to SWITCH FROM WHATSAPP by SWITCHING FROM WHATSAPP.
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no the average user of whatsapp thinks they have nothing to hide and will not switch because all their friends have whatsapp.
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Example: state media in Turkey used the Guardian story to pressure local users to switch to less secure alternatives.
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it’s even worse than it looks, because they’ll switch _just for the sensitive stuff_
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Indeed; the damage is worse than that because you know who'll switch? Activists who try to pay most attention.
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Having spent years converting people to Signal: most who switch don't stay on. They'll fall back... SMS, messenger...
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one approach for "stickiness" is to only send pictures of the grandkids through Signal; for laypeople, content > platform
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Signal has multiple issues: usability; downtime; people you want aren't on it, but more importantly, it blocks at first hiccup+
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..which is good in some ways (and opposite of WhatsApp) but actually limits its user base and sometimes less secure because+
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..there are also real security costs to undelivered messages.. Your desperate plea before your phone is grabbed, etc.
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atm; we need two platforms with different defaults; ideally maybe WhatsApp has a non-default "work like Signal" setting?
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