| I'm constantly on the lookout for newer and/or different messaging applications. This one is good because it doesn't rely on a phone number. But it's still yet another centralized system. There isn't enough information on how this service doesn't store user data (or metadata) and still manages to connect them (in contrast, Signal has many blog posts and documentation about how it minimizes data collection). In the FAQ, there's this: > Which operating systems are supported? > TeleGuard supports all Android devices with version OS 5.0.3+ and all iPhone devices with at least iOS 9.0+. It's good to support a few older versions of operating systems, but I don't think a messenger can promise security or privacy if it supports operating systems that are quite old by mobile standards and aren't getting security updates for a long time. Wikipedia says that Android 5's latest release was nearly six years ago (April 21, 2015) and that of iOS 9 as 17 months ago (July 22, 2019). Supporting iOS seems kinda ok, but supporting that Android version looks quite bad. I also judge websites by what they say and how they say it. In the FAQ, after the answer for "07. Edit Profile", there's a list of bullet points that looks like a to do list for additional FAQs that haven't been completed: • Send media • Forgot password? • How is TeleGuard financed? • Registration • Add contacts from the phone list • What kind of encryption does TeleGuard use? I don't think this is ready for prime time yet. |