Yeah i see that.

im fine if the gov knowing i went to that protest. Im proud to attach my face to it. However comms over sms becomes an issue when we decide to go to an illegal protest, which will become more and more of an issue over the next decade, at least in my country.

So by establishing the general rule of secure communications for political activism, i hopefully avoid a friend making the blunder of sending a photo/talking about a protest that was explicitely said to be illegal and punishable by a fine or worse.

I think a big part is never having used the “privacy muscle”, and atm its atrophied. I was like that before taking privacy seriously

Yeah absolutely. My friend asked if i wanted to go to a palestine protest… over sms. Told him I wont talk about politiical activity over insecure means. On his part he did agree at least… but then refused to download signal

If you can’t see the code (closed source) then treat it as they’re lying and it isn’t end to end encrypted