[Politics] Surveillance self defense

[thewronghands]

Hello, Internet! Several of my friends have installed Signal (hi!) and thanked me for the recommendation. I thought I'd link again. Also, those of you tending to your digital footprints may appreciate the EFF's Surveillance Self Defense project. They have tutorials customized to LGBTQ youths, Mac users, activists and protesters, journalism

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[rhiannonstone]

Love this, thank you so much. I was happy to reinstall Signal on the advice of so many smart friends (used to use it when it was TextSecure/RedPhone, but it was... unusable), and have finally gotten around to using a password manager for home (already use one at work).

Sanity check question for you: I have a partner and several family members who don't have smartphones, only featurephones/"dumb"phones. My thought is that in those cases, it's more secure for us to communicate via data, over something secured by SSL, than it is to communicate via SMS since that metadata is trackable and tracked. Am I right? What are your thoughts?