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Re: Signal Desktop

#3

Post by pc86 »

hedgehog wrote: post #2

Note: Android only. Edit: In the sense that it only works with the Android version of the app.

Which is funny considering they are using a MacBook (with Photoshopped screen) as a promotional image.

Re: Signal Desktop

#4

Post by zellyn »

pc86 wrote: post #3
hedgehog wrote: post #2

Note: Android only. Edit: In the sense that it only works with the Android version of the app.

Which is funny considering they are using a MacBook (with Photoshopped screen) as a promotional image.

I believe you link to your phone, and that part is Android only.

Re: Signal Desktop

#5

Post by liotier »

hedgehog wrote: post #2

Note: Android only. Edit: In the sense that it only works with the Android version of the app.

I found myself thinking "WFT - this is Chrome, not desktop and with an Android dependency at that !" and then realizing that it may be time to question my assumptions about "desktop" meaning Linux/Windows/Macintosh

Re: Signal Desktop

#6

Post by zmanian »

hedgehog wrote: post #2

Note: Android only. Edit: In the sense that it only works with the Android version of the app.

Android only on the sense that the ability to provisions two device keys with one account is Android only.

OWS is hiring iOS devs to implement more pieces of this.

Re: Signal Desktop

#8

Post by jmnicolas »

> Signal Desktop is a Chrome app which links with your [Android] phone,[...]

Unless your "adversary" is not the NSA, I wonder what's the point of encrypting your communications when those coms are taking place on technologies (iOS, Android, Chrome) from companies that are members of the Prism program.

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