Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
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Re: Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
#2That's a lot of faith that you'll never log anything sensitive by making the user's debug logs public if they want to report an issue.
Re: Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
#3> [..] his Signal randomly sending images to me that he didn't intend to, even without initiating the addition of any attachments on the GUI... he even sees one of my messages displayed on his side with a random image attached to it, as if i have sent that image to him, even though that image is not even present on my phone.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247#iss...
Yikes.
> [..] I've also recently had a probably unrelated issue where my mic was still audible to the other party after I hung up the call.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247#iss...
Double yikes.
Re: Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
#4I've not experienced reports of this for myself. I'll ask my driend group to do a comparison between our shared room and see if there are any problems. to be fair i mostly use groups so maybe the behavior is limited to 1x1 messaging?
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#5I was just talking about Signal one hour ago whether if it was available on PinePhones or the Librem 5 which seems very unclear, and now this happens on Android devices.
Does this mean that not only I can't yet recommend a PinePhone or Librem 5 yet, but for current Android users I can't even recommend Signal to anyone due to this issue?
Re: Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
#6A non-techie relative of mine told me about images being sent to wrong people and them asking why they sent the photo. I first assumed it was just user error but apparently that's quite a bit data leak on signals side.
Re: Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
#7While I suppose the protocol is not at fault and it's a UI and client bug it's still a huge problem.
Just today I was thinking ”it's been weeks since they moved the GIF button to a different place but there's still the old button at the old place and when you click on it there's a pop-up "wrong, the button is somewhere else now"”.
Why even keep the old button in the old place ?
And it led me to thinking "what else could be wrong/buggy in the UI and the UX that is not obvious to them ?".
edit: according to this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27951648 there is only one dev working on the Android client ? Hats off to that person, it's incredible.
So I should have written: And it led me to thinking "what else could be wrong/buggy in the UI and the UX that they haven't had time to catch and fix yet ?".
Re: Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
#8I was just talking about Signal one hour ago whether if it was available on PinePhones or the Librem 5 which seems very unclear, and now this happens on Android devices. Does this mean that not only I can't yet recommend a PinePhone or Librem 5 yet, but for current Android users I can't even recommend Signal to anyone due to this issue?
Email. Why are we still trying to push these instant messaging apps that are a privacy and security nightmare? (I realise email has security issues too).
Re: Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
#9Is this some kind of cache bug? Pretty serious, whatever it is, and judging by the linked issue, they either haven't taken it seriously, or worse, they aren't able to pinpoint the bug.
Re: Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
#10> [..] his Signal randomly sending images to me that he didn't intend to, even without initiating the addition of any attachments on the GUI... he even sees one of my messages displayed on his side with a random image attached to it, as if i have sent that image to him, even though that image is not even present on my phone. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247#iss... Yikes. > [..] I've also recen…
> I've also recently had a probably unrelated issue where my mic was still audible to the other party after I hung up the call.
That one there is a cataclysmic security land mine. Absolutely unacceptable.
That was the last straw after [0]. I don't think I can recommend Signal at this time.
To Downvoters: So these bugs are all fine then? They are not security issues then? Not only having images being sent to the wrong contacts but also having the microphone still on after ending the call and being audible to the other party? That's fine right?
If this happened on any other messaging app, I would expect a massive outcry and urgency to fix these critical issues.