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Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by jlund »

newman314 wrote: post #76
petermonsson wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool, thanks. So, I got it working with some friends. The start is rough when you don't have any contacts. There is no hand holding like you'd expect from other messaging apps. Especially the first message to the first contact is a tough discovery. I managed to mistakenly call instead of texting and another friend did exactly the same. The error message when you are not registered yet is also not totally clear. One f…

Can you document how to add contacts? I've been poking around to no avail.

Signal ties into your phone's existing address book. You can add someone new using the iOS Contacts application.

Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by anonbanker »

_jomo wrote: post #104

TextSecure for Android is only distributed via the Play Store. So I built it myself only to notice that Google Play Services are required for chat. I think depending on proprietary / data gathering apps is the wrong approach for an open source privacy app. It actually makes me sad. There was an issue about "This requires Google Play" on GitHub [0] which was closed by moxie with "TextSecure only requires GSF for data…

Install textsecure from F-droid.

EDIT: not only is textsecure not on f-droid, but f-droid itself is woefully insecure: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127

Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by jlund »

guelo wrote: post #102
cheald wrote: post #83

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TextSecure lets you save photos out of the conversation and onto (unsecure) external storage.

The photos refused to download from the textsecure servers.

MMS messages are sent and received by your cellular carrier.

Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by stormbrew »

dguido wrote: post #107
stormbrew wrote: post #98

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They addressed it in this github issue: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/614 I'm also disappointed in this. The people I most want to use this with are also the people who have an iphone4. I don't get the impression it'd be impossible to backport it from that post, so some enterprising individual could maybe do just that...

I'm surprised they didn't mention how amazingly insecure it is to be running a phone that old. If you're running a private messenger like Signal, you might not want to install it on a device vulnerable to bootrom exploits that negate all the advantages of disk encryption.

While this is true, they also, through TextSecure, support many android phones that are probably in much worse shape on that front. It's also not like web browsers refuse to use TLS because your computer's running a compromiseable version of Windows.

Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by dombili »

Congrats on the launch of Signal 2.0. I hope it'll be a popular app, but I have a question slightly off topic: Why can't we get an app like Signal for the desktop? Yes, I'm aware there are alternatives for the desktop (mainly Pidgin + OTR), but none of them work like Signal does (ease of use) and frankly I don't really trust using them. I'd like to think I'm ignorant on the subject and there's a good alternative out there, and if so, please do tell.

Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by driverdan »

minot wrote: post #43

If anyone from Whisper Systems is reading, can you please tell me how I can disassociate my number from a Cyanogenmod installed version of TextSecure in my (now formatted and sold) Nexus 4 and get it working with my no sim Nexus 5 with Google Voice/Hangouts?

Good luck. When I tried TextSecure about a week ago I couldn't get it to work with Voice. I never received a confirmation.

Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by jarito »

dombili wrote: post #115

Congrats on the launch of Signal 2.0. I hope it'll be a popular app, but I have a question slightly off topic: Why can't we get an app like Signal for the desktop? Yes, I'm aware there are alternatives for the desktop (mainly Pidgin + OTR), but none of them work like Signal does (ease of use) and frankly I don't really trust using them. I'd like to think I'm ignorant on the subject and there's a good alternative out…

All the protocols for Signal / TextSecure are open source. Seems like people will probably implement desktop clients at some point, which would be really nice.

Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by clpwn »

dombili wrote: post #115

Congrats on the launch of Signal 2.0. I hope it'll be a popular app, but I have a question slightly off topic: Why can't we get an app like Signal for the desktop? Yes, I'm aware there are alternatives for the desktop (mainly Pidgin + OTR), but none of them work like Signal does (ease of use) and frankly I don't really trust using them. I'd like to think I'm ignorant on the subject and there's a good alternative out…

That's currently in the works as a browser extension: https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure-browser

You can keep track of its progress there :).

Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by dombili »

clpwn wrote: post #118
dombili wrote: post #115

Congrats on the launch of Signal 2.0. I hope it'll be a popular app, but I have a question slightly off topic: Why can't we get an app like Signal for the desktop? Yes, I'm aware there are alternatives for the desktop (mainly Pidgin + OTR), but none of them work like Signal does (ease of use) and frankly I don't really trust using them. I'd like to think I'm ignorant on the subject and there's a good alternative out…

That's currently in the works as a browser extension: https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure-browser You can keep track of its progress there :).

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but doesn't that require a smartphone with TextSecure installed? I don't own a smartphone. (I accept that I'm a weirdo.)

Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

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Post by newman314 »

jlund wrote: post #111
newman314 wrote: post #76

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Can you document how to add contacts? I've been poking around to no avail.

Signal ties into your phone's existing address book. You can add someone new using the iOS Contacts application.

I thought Signal 1.x had a way to invite people to download and install Signal over iMessage.
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