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Wow, maybe as a side effect users will be able to migrate between Android and iOS without losing their message history. Seriously, why is the migration protocol completely different on the two platforms?
Because they don't want to make jumping to the competitor too easy.
I still do not quite understand why I can't have the option to just back things up to iCloud (I do understand the security implications and I'm fine with it), but ANY backup solution is better than "your data is gone, tough".
Oh, now having reread the article I do understand why I can't have any other backup options. Paid subscription. Of course.
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There's a big difference to me between storing it on device and someone else's servers.
Sure, but you already have no way of knowing which one the other parties in your chats are doing. I already sync my Signal backups to the cloud, because that's the most practical and time/cost-effective way to have a 3-2-1 backup system for my chats.
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Sure, but you already have no way of knowing which one the other parties in your chats are doing. I already sync my Signal backups to the cloud, because that's the most practical and time/cost-effective way to have a 3-2-1 backup system for my chats.
There's a difference between someone in your chats acting adversarially and Signal supporting/encouraging adversarial behavior as part of the way the app works. If Signal published a change to the protocol that removed forward secrecy, we wouldn't consider it a non-event and say "well anyone could screenshot messages anyway," even though that may be true. They're calling this "secure backups," but in truth it appears…
Without paying for remote backups, can I just manage my own backup on my own hard drive, and restore it when I want to?
Yes! That has been supported for a long while. At least on Android, go to Settings -> Chats -> Chat Backups. Set up a schedule and a passphrase and a folder, and it will export your chats every day. I do that and then sync that folder with another computer using SyncThing.
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Sure, but you already have no way of knowing which one the other parties in your chats are doing. I already sync my Signal backups to the cloud, because that's the most practical and time/cost-effective way to have a 3-2-1 backup system for my chats.
There's a difference between someone in your chats acting adversarially and Signal supporting/encouraging adversarial behavior as part of the way the app works. If Signal published a change to the protocol that removed forward secrecy, we wouldn't consider it a non-event and say "well anyone could screenshot messages anyway," even though that may be true. They're calling this "secure backups," but in truth it appears…
If you don't want them to have a history only communicate via disappearing messages.
The file is encrypted with the passcode and the database can be extracted.
Without paying for remote backups, can I just manage my own backup on my own hard drive, and restore it when I want to?
Yes! That has been supported for a long while. At least on Android, go to Settings -> Chats -> Chat Backups. Set up a schedule and a passphrase and a folder, and it will export your chats every day. I do that and then sync that folder with another computer using SyncThing.
AFAIK SyncThing only monitors for changes between files with matching names, and Signal stores each backup with a separate (timestamped) filename. Are you storing every day's backup individually, or do you have some tool for deduplicating?