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The blog post completely fails to explain why this feature is mandatory, and why users are now locked out of being able to view their messages until they setup a PIN. The Signal app has now essentially taken all messages hostage, and users are unable to access messages until they create a PIN.
I am a huge proponent of Signal, but this is unacceptable behavior.
I'm extremely disappointed about how this Signal PIN rollout has been handled. Signal refused to let me view my received messages until I created a PIN. I filed a bug report about it [1]. I don't know if I was just caught in an A/B test or what because it hasn't happened to all of my Signal-using friends but it happened to me. I don't understand why it isn't just optional. They claim they want to protect my Signal da…
Don't miss: > PINs will also help facilitate new features like addressing that isn’t based exclusively on phone numbers
I don’t want my messages to be stored anywhere other than on my phone. I hate when companies push this bullshit on you. I keep on getting reminders to set a pin and I can’t turn it off. I think one of the issues with software is that because it’s infinitely extensible, people just add more and more features, they don’t know when to stop. So they keep pushing features that satisfy 10% of their users to the detriment o…
I'm extremely disappointed about how this Signal PIN rollout has been handled. Signal refused to let me view my received messages until I created a PIN. I filed a bug report about it [1]. I don't know if I was just caught in an A/B test or what because it hasn't happened to all of my Signal-using friends but it happened to me. I don't understand why it isn't just optional. They claim they want to protect my Signal da…
Imagine needing to configure and remember a PIN on the spot when you need to urgently read your messages.
I've already got a passphrase on my Signal app. Why do I also need a PIN on top of that? If it's supposed to be an easier alternative to a passphrase, then okay, but stop showing me the freaking notification to setup a PIN...
First off the app is incessant about asking you to enter your PIN to prove you know it; this prompt is supposed to get less frequent and I suppose it does but is still way too frequent. Some of us are competent at storing secrets in a password manager and this is like a punishment for us because it can easily take several minutes to go retrieve the strong password, copy it, paste it in.
It actually reduced the security for me; I started out with maybe a 16 or 20 digit PIN and cut it to a smaller number of digits that I could memorize. (I still haven't memorized them!)
There were also issues with Signal's implementation of the feature. I chose quite a long PIN (>20 digits) at first for security only to find out later from them that it was above the silently imposed limit. Later when I went to verify the PIN it would not work because whatever silent truncation was done when establishing the PIN was not re-performed on verification so it did not recognize the PIN.
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There are a million apps which store messages on a server, those users are already on those apps. The thing that differentiated signal is the data-less functionality.
No, the thing that Signal always aimed for was "Making mass surveillance impossible", and "privacy for the masses". If you remove the mass part, you remove the main goal of Signal. The experts can maybe fork Signal, or use Matrix. Then there is always PGP/GPG.
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This is a feature critical for wide adoption. Most users will swear off any app that makes it easy for them to lose all their chats.
That certainly is not a feature I have ever cared about. Do people really scroll back through old chat logs on a regular basis? I wonder why.