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Session Is An Encrypted Messenger Geared Towards Privacy Enthusiasts
After the Facebook outage took WhatsApp down earlier this week, there's been a renewed interest in decentralised and secure alternatives. Telegram was one of the biggest gainers during Facebook's outage, but there are options that are completely decentralised and private, built using Blockchain-like technology that powers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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The 2 key and critical areas about a secure messaging system is :
1. that it is technically secure and it is opensource.
2. Who owns it? How is it funded? What legal jurisdiction is it under?
Lots of technical detail here but the second part, not so much.
From the Gadgets link
It's Australian, so it can't be trusted. Australia has laws that allow it's police and secret police to secretly interfere with software. This is dealt with in the second link from restoreprivacy.com.