[PLUG] asking advice on secure texting application

[Mike C.]

>
> It seems to be a law of nature, immutable by mutual desire, that
> every community you might want to interact with will choose a different
> messaging app.
>

Indeed. Which means that in practice you're only as secure as the app your
family, friend and co-workers use. And then when you bring up how they
should use encryption, you're instantly the "security conspiracy tin foil
hat wearing person who has a Faraday Cage in their basement" person of the
group.

Off The Record encryption protocol is fairly widely supported at least as
far as messaging clients go. There is ChatSecure for iOS and there are
Android, Linux/Unix and OSX clients as well.

I'm really curious now if a couple of different OTR supported clients on
different OS' could actually have an encrypted group chat