I use an iPhone and my fiancé uses Android. He is not very tech savvy. He does not like to text for privacy reasons. I was going to recommend we get Signal but see others in Lemmy talking about Matrix. Is that better? If so, what app is best that works on both our phones? Thanks Lemmy friends!
I would think its NOT good privacy to backup it to icloud. As ANY backup. They probably do no backups, because it is unsafe to do so.
Properly encrypted backups should be fine. You should be able to put a backup with a sufficiently secure password anywhere or the encryption is broken, and I don’t think Signal’s is.
You would need a very good password, of course. I use a 64 or 128 character random string from my password manager for these types of backups and I’m confident posting the files in just about any cloud storage location.
If the backup isn’t encrypted, or you can’t pick your own key, the situation changes drastically, of course.
Yeah, but the best encryption is… not to give the data to unwanted third parties. As then they have time of their lives to encrypt that ( if they want ).
Then why on Android do they do a full database backup encrypted by a simple PIN code?
It could be something legal with apple too. But it was just a guess!!!