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I don't have a Twitter account, but if the author happens to be reading this (or if anyone wants to shoot a message to him), I use Threema for secure messaging. I love it. But I admit to not having used the others so I can't comment on how it ranks against the competition.

https://threema.ch/en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.threema.app...

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What's the advantage of this over, say, Signal?

Is signal previous name textsecure ? Those who dropped SMS support of their secure texting application so now it requires a data plan to be remotely useful.

That's about when Openwhisper / Signal lost me, I'm not gonna trust them with anything anymore. Also worth mentioning that all communication go through a single point of failure central server, it requires a phone number to register and is not available outside the worst privacy offender device: smartphones.

You can chose your identifier (not linked to a phone number). On the other side they are closed source.

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