In late June, a friend messaged me to ask if I had ever tried Signal, the cross-platform encrypted messaging service. I was aware of Signal, but the timing was an interesting coincidence, since an article about Signal had just come up in my feed, and I had saved it to Pocket so I could look into it later. But based on his recommendation, I installed the app on the handset I actually use day-to-day, the Huawei P30 Pro, replacing the Google Messages app I was using previously for SMS and MMS.

Maybe I should have waited.