Also, #Signal and #Telegram are said to be flooded with new users.
I'm both glad and unglad to hear that.
Signal is fully end-to-end encrypted ( #E2EE ), so that's better than all other #corpocentric alternatives, but: * they are centralized * they collect data such as telephone number (can't use it without giving said info) * I haven't used it, but I hear their video and audio calls are poor quality
Telegram has optional E2EE on certain types of communications. * I believe their encryption is home-grown, so not battle-tested like professional algorithms. * They are centralized
Anything is better than using any product or service owned by Facebook, so I'm glad to see the outmigration, but not glad that other centralized services are the main beneficiaries.
Yet another reason to wonder whether #Zoom’s management is just ignorant about #privacy and #security, or actively malicious. “End to end” encryption has a specific meaning, namely that messages sent from your device are encrypted until they arrive at your recipients’ devices, so that no one in between, including any service providers, can read the message payload. If that is not the case, it is not #E2EE.