I'm in a Signal chat for disgruntled Feds. It's a great way to blow off steam.

I had to install it and use it because some people I deal with use it.

My sweetie and I switch between that and imessage. Can't remember why and there is no rhyme or rhythm to the stuff we talk about on one platform or the other.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really care what others have said. If your spouse is inetntionally deleteing their social plans with 'friends', they are hiding something. And if they tell you its because we are living under fascism and 'the man' is coming for them, it's best to get them to a mental health profesional.

You know people can delete regular texts too, right?

But Apple retains records of deleted texts. Signal never sees the texts because of the encyption and cant cooperate with a court order. They have nothing to turn over. Apple will turn over your deleted messages with a valid order.

When is this coming up in your marriage?
Do people subpoena texts in a divorce? Seems like a waste of time, just divorce.

Adultery is a crime in Virginia and greatly impacts the divison of assess. One anecdote here but illustrative of why it matters:

- woman stays home with kids for 8 years while fully supporting her DH's career. DH has been banging his coworker for 3 years and texts prove the adultery. In Virgnia, that gets her X% of his salary for X number of years.

If this all happened in Maryland, she literally gets nothing.

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No, they are not a fed and they work in construction. There is zero reason professionally to have this level of privacy

What an idiotic thing to say. Signal is simply an encrypted communications app, on par with, but better than, iMessage. Would you assume sinister things about someone using iMessage? Of course not.

And why would you NOT want to use Signal? No one needs to excuse wanting privacy.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Among other reasons, it doesn't break when some people have Apple and others have Android.

From your perspective as a spouse, what's the difference? If you can access the phone, you can read chats on text or signal. If you can't access the phone, you can't see either one. So why does it matter?

For the first part, every app except Apple Messages works like they.

For the second part, Apple and Google apps give you easy access via logins on shared computer.

Anonymous wrote:Of course. All my discussions with friends in sensitive jobs are on Signal.

This! I have had it for a number of years and use it for job communication.

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No, they are not a fed and they work in construction. There is zero reason professionally to have this level of privacy

Do they know people who do?

Do they work with illegal immigrants? If I was one, I would have all my communications on Signal. It is much better than texting. ICE can’t just go grab all your texts, for one.

This. He might be protecting staff.

Ask him why.

Makes absolute sense to me. This

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really care what others have said. If your spouse is inetntionally deleteing their social plans with 'friends', they are hiding something. And if they tell you its because we are living under fascism and 'the man' is coming for them, it's best to get them to a mental health profesional.

You know people can delete regular texts too, right?

But Apple retains records of deleted texts. Signal never sees the texts because of the encyption and cant cooperate with a court order. They have nothing to turn over. Apple will turn over your deleted messages with a valid order.

When is this coming up in your marriage?
Do people subpoena texts in a divorce? Seems like a waste of time, just divorce.

Huh ? Have you heard of WhatsAp or imessaging? It's like that but smarter from a security perspective. I should probably ask my group chats friends that we shift to it but I haven't

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really care what others have said. If your spouse is inetntionally deleteing their social plans with 'friends', they are hiding something. And if they tell you its because we are living under fascism and 'the man' is coming for them, it's best to get them to a mental health profesional.

You know people can delete regular texts too, right?

But Apple retains records of deleted texts. Signal never sees the texts because of the encyption and cant cooperate with a court order. They have nothing to turn over. Apple will turn over your deleted messages with a valid order.

This. This is why it is such a good program for security. And there can be a lot of reasons to wish your communications to be secure.

Everything on my Signal auto-deletes. The only thing I use WhatsApp for is communicating in foreign countries with Viator guides and for large video files, which is much better on WhatsApp than text. When I am horse shopping I use WhatsApp a ton for that reason.

Because you are trying to hide your horse shopping from your spouse or because it’s better for receiving videos of potential horses that you might buy?

Lots and lots of videos. I don’t need to hide the horses. If I even wanted to, I’d just have to be sure to buy another bay. I have 4 bays and he can’t tell them apart at all.

I use both Signal and WhatsApp to text different people. Signal is really just with my parents to text and video call, then WhatsApp is coworkers and friends.

I have it because I hate Zuck.

I still use WhatsApp when I have to but if I can help it, I don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really care what others have said. If your spouse is inetntionally deleteing their social plans with 'friends', they are hiding something. And if they tell you its because we are living under fascism and 'the man' is coming for them, it's best to get them to a mental health profesional.

You know people can delete regular texts too, right?

But Apple retains records of deleted texts. Signal never sees the texts because of the encyption and cant cooperate with a court order. They have nothing to turn over. Apple will turn over your deleted messages with a valid order.

This. This is why it is such a good program for security. And there can be a lot of reasons to wish your communications to be secure.

Everything on my Signal auto-deletes. The only thing I use WhatsApp for is communicating in foreign countries with Viator guides and for large video files, which is much better on WhatsApp than text. When I am horse shopping I use WhatsApp a ton for that reason.

Because you are trying to hide your horse shopping from your spouse or because it’s better for receiving videos of potential horses that you might buy?