In our last article, we took a look at Signal and Telegram, two giants in the encrypted communications industry, and compared some of their features as well as their security and privacy levels. Among other things, we also sort of sketched out two other messengers that are poised to become
I wouldn’t blanket call the removal of PFS a “failure” as they put it… it does make the protocol much simpler (and hence easier to understand/audit as well) and it’s not always a necessity for every single person’s threat model… which is an important phrase the article doesn’t even mention.
IMO arguing about security or privacy without both people first defining their threat models… is like claiming apples are objectively better than bananas in every way.