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0 pointsdarklajid8y ago0 comments

As someone that doesn't care at all about Signal (I'm in the "no federation & mobile number as ID is unappealing and I can just as well use WhatsApp" camp) I came away with the opposite opinion:

The people in the report (not necessary the original submitter, the "Now I'll go and tell everyone to uninstall Signal! There you have it!" crowd) seemed to be demanding/whining and spammed a bug tracker with random anecdotes and their personal agendas in a rather rude way.

Whereas moxie - again, in my opinion - replied in a very friendly, objective and calm manner and invited these people to discuss the issue further. In the _right place_ for an open debate about design decisions.

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laresistance8y ago

Then again, you can't expect Signal's target users (normal tech un-savvy people) to have FDE. But that's not necessarily bad in my book. IIRC Signal's security model wasn't aiming for maximizing security but instead making mass-surveillance harder to execute while offering an acceptable UX.

xgbi8y ago

Also, encrypting files on disk is not actually protecting anything. The Signal app still has to decrypt is somehow, and has to store the private key somewhere, usually on disk, unencrypted..

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0 pointsdarklajid8y ago0 comments

As someone that doesn't care at all about Signal (I'm in the "no federation & mobile number as ID is unappealing and I can just as well use WhatsApp" camp) I came away with the opposite opinion:

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laresistance8y ago

xgbi8y ago

Also, encrypting files on disk is not actually protecting anything. The Signal app still has to decrypt is somehow, and has to store the private key somewhere, usually on disk, unencrypted..

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