A sociopath libertarian idiot.

The L part is the kind of person I want in charge of my encrypted data. Telling the government to fuck off because he legitimately can’t comprehend how government is a good thing.

Signal will now allow your old messages being exported to another device. Previously needed to do a full transfer to another device.

Recommending to friends and family means Signal. With a phone number they can start using the gold standard for encryption from the get go.

How is this related to privacy? Seems like he’s pretty public about his views.

Simplex is a much closer alternative

Disabling JavaScript in and of itself is not something I understand as a viable way to interact with the internet.

Almost all the Tor de-anonymization attacks rely on JavaScript. Not being pwned is a standard of living many users are willing to live under. Plenty of actual text and images are still viewable over tor this way. And if you can’t access content on one site this way then that site wasn’t respecting your privacy.

Bluetooth is very insecure. Almost all the security comes from needing devices to be close together. And even the latest standards/devices won’t be that secure because the goal of the tech is simple easy connections with low latency. Encrypting your music stream would piss away battery power while you listen to Trump ASMR.

As others have said, there are plenty of downgrade attacks unless your devices are basically the latest and the protocol is set to encrypted file sharing.

You mention an android phone and a Linux laptop. If you’re worried about security then use a usb cable as the gold standard, or transfer encrypted files only. If you like convenience then just look around you for anybody suspicious.