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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When they gonna allow sign up without a phone number. Or allow federation with 3rd party signal severs. Or allow sign up without a phone number that’s linked to ur real identity by law in most countries.

  The more I learn about signal the less I trust them.

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  • RayJW@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think at this point it should be pretty clear that Signal never had the goal of anonymity which is an orthogonal concept to privacy. While I would support sign-up without phone numbers, it doesn’t address the same threat-model and there are many alternatives if anonymity is your goal.

    But I want near-perfect privacy with usability, which Signal provides for me and all my contacts. Who cares if my government knows I use Signal, as long as they don’t know who I talk to and what we talk about.

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  • Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    keep spreading FUD, my guy 😎

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    • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey signal is better than most of the mainstream bs. I use it myself and I’m confident that the messages themselves are secure. However, everything I said is 100% true.

      Since we cannot verify the software they run on the server is the software that is open source then we must assume it is not.

      We know for a majority of cases a phone number = a real identity. Signal implements sealed sender but since signal is a centralised point they can correlate the sealed sender extraordinarily easily. We must therefore assume signal knows when and who is communicating (We can verify they don’t know what is being said) this therefore means signal could theoretically have a full social graph of real identities for every singe user.

      This is of course after we remember signal received funding from BBG which is an organisation funded by the us government purely for the purpose of promoting american propaganda.

      Its not FUD its true. Signal can either adapt and prove themselves with more than a “trust me bro” or they can die. Just cos they are better than the alternatives does not mean we should not demand better.

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• tisktisk@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I need a tldr someone tech-savvy

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This change will impact how you set up Signal on your desktop computer. Previously, after linking your desktop to your phone, you would be presented with basically an empty window.

    This change will allow you to, optionally, synchronize your message history from your phone to your desktop, filling it with your previous messages, making it much easier to pick up where you left off with your conversations.

    Pictures and videos that were sent will also synchronize, as long as they are from the past month and a half.

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• 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What is this headline

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• azalty@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good thing, but they’re still soooo slow on updating and adding basic features such as pinned messages

  I feel like their team is not very productive

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can you backup you fucking private keys yet?

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