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Reasons Not To Use Signal Anymore

On January 24, 2026 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

Signal should probably no longer be included as a top choice for activist messaging, secure messaging, business and personal messaging for the following trust-worthiness red-flag reasons. Signal’s server is no longer open source. In 2021, they announced a closed-source component for scanning and blocking certain users. You can see for yourself as the source code for the “spam-filter @ e73138e” folder in https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server is private. As you know, if any part becomes closed source, that compromises …

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The Messaging Mess: Why it’s stupid to use non-standard electronic messaging protocols

On July 19, 2022 By Adam Z. Lein In Features, Tech

“Too Long Didn’t Read” Summary: Managing too many messaging apps can cause cognitive overload and contribute to cognitive decline or burn-out. It’s smarter to focus on the one publicly democratic system that works with everything everywhere there’s internet, is completely open for you to control/customize on your own within the largest messaging ecosystem on the planet, and is already built into 99% of the electronic devices in use by 100% of the humans on the …