What do you recommend?

If Signal was not simple, my family and friends would likely use Telegram or WhatsApp. Even switching to Signal required a number of (general) newspaper articles criticising the status quo. It’s likely not optimal, but okayish and sharing opinions and holiday impressions feels a bit better.

Switching a service is a slow, difficult process and many contacts will not follow, given they would abandon other contacts among friends, family, parents at school, sports teams, … (now, I’m here, using 4+ solutions).

If training or even curiosity for the technical process is required, very few people will follow. If it takes me (with strong IT background) more than 30 minutes to understand/implement, I may have a decent private solution, but I will feel quite lonely soon.

Eltern-Chiffre: Popeltroll

Wenn man dem Wortlaut folgt ist doch die mau gesicherte Software selbst das strafbare Programm, das geeignet ist Daten auszuspähen. Das Passwort zum Zugriff auf Daten anderer Kunden hatte die auftraggebende Firma ja offenbar bereits vom Hersteller, und der ‘schurkische’ Programmierer hat verifiziert, dass das PW auch plain in der executable lebt. facepalm