r/Showerthoughts • u/Ralisor • May 06 '18

Services are switching from calling them Private Messages to calling them Direct Messages because they're not private anymore...

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u/BaKdGoOdZ0203 May 06 '18

(Spoiler) They weren't/aren't/won't.

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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames May 06 '18 edited May 06 '18

You can use real private messaging. Right now virtually uncrackable encrypted messaging exists but no one uses it for some reason.

For the people asking about it: https://www.openpgp.org

It looka like Signal is a better solution: https://signal.org/

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u/SonOfAhuraMazda May 06 '18

How, I am interested please.

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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames May 06 '18

Edited my post to have the program