Is it still viable to use Signal for privacy in 2026? It’s centralized, and has had many suspicious occurrences in the past.(Unopen source server code, careless whisper exploit which is still active as far as I know, and the whole mobile coin situation.)
Thoughts?
Just remember that if you, or anyone you are talking to, has notifications turned on (in the app itself), that conversation is now outside of signal and a lot easier to get to.
Which is an everything problem, not a signal problem. Just in case it sounds like a signal problem.
This was recently kinda misrepresented in the media, in my opinion.
Yes, notifications can leave traces. But it’s traces on the device itself that can be forensically extracted. Though notifications are pushed through Apple’s/Google’s servers, the contents are encrypted end-to-end.
This issue and its solution will be the same as with any other app notifications.
Not if you set notifications to not show any content. Other than the sender, of course, which could be problematic depending who sends the message.
You can also set it to hide the sender, but that’s overkill for my use case
Doesn’t it depend on what’s in the notifications?