There are three main problems with the network and business architecture of secure messengers like Signal, Telegram, etc.
- Free is a business model only if data is resold, it won’t work for privacy. (or the service goes out of business). These messengers are all free to the user, therefore someone is paying to run the service and by definition they are not private.
- Users rely on central storage of their data (the most convenient approach). privateLINE p2p will enable users to store their own data locally, with centralized signaling and back up storage, if the user opts to do it. This is the future.
- There is no expectation of privacy on a public network. In the future we expect a separation between public and private networks. You will still use your regular phone and network as an “alibi”. Anything important will need to be conducted on a private network.
For these reasons and others we decided we had to build a new network, away from the internet and under the user’s direct control as much as possible. You should consider using privateLINE as a back up in case something happens to Signal.
https://decodetheworld.substack.com/p/why-we-stopped-using-signal-messenger