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Huh? You can disable the PIN reminder in the settings if you want to. Or is that not available everywhere? It's working for me on Android and Windows. I've disabled it as I store my PIN in my password manager.
Either that’s new or I’m just a loud bozo. Thanks for sharing!
Signal's message requests is a major selling point for me. I recently created a Signal account after having a bad experience in which someone used my phone number to harass me with SMS/calls (every time, from a different VOIP number). It's frustrating that, even in this era, there is no good way to filter out malicious actors from SMS/call. P.S. You can sign up with Signal via a VOIP number to avoid sharing your real…
I've not had this problem with iMessage really. Are you SURE its not possible to block out bad actors on messaging?
Signal does not.
Apple backs up iMessage plaintext contents to Apple, via non-e2e iCloud Backup, bypassing iMessage's end to end encryption.
Signal does not.
Signal was superb for a long time, and then received a hefty chunk of funding, and, although I may be wrong, has declined since then, and in fact jumped the shark about a year ago. They attempted ever more forcefully to make users to set a PIN to protect server-side state; it started with a dialog at the bottom of the screen, obscuring about 20% of the user list, which could not be dimissed, and then after a few week…
Great, but... Please let people allow Signal to automatically save their media to their photo roll (or whatever ios calls it). The number of people I have met who require this and left Signal _after starting to use it_ is astonishing.
But I have issues with the wisdom of such a feature, given that we're entering the age of client-side CSAM scanning.
Just got a new phone and migrating Signal was a total disaster. The first thing I did was login to the new phone which is apparently the wrong thing to do because you lose all your old messages and there's no option to import after you login. You have to logout but there is no logout . Gotta uninstall and reinstall, or clear app data. Next I tried the account migration feature which requires using both phones simulta…
Just got a new phone and migrating Signal was a total disaster. The first thing I did was login to the new phone which is apparently the wrong thing to do because you lose all your old messages and there's no option to import after you login. You have to logout but there is no logout . Gotta uninstall and reinstall, or clear app data. Next I tried the account migration feature which requires using both phones simulta…
It's easier to get seduced by tall sounding words like "cryptography", censorship, "security", anonymity etc. Those are just buzz words.
Try something that works seamlessly across platforms.
Signal's message requests is a major selling point for me. I recently created a Signal account after having a bad experience in which someone used my phone number to harass me with SMS/calls (every time, from a different VOIP number). It's frustrating that, even in this era, there is no good way to filter out malicious actors from SMS/call. P.S. You can sign up with Signal via a VOIP number to avoid sharing your real…
It's complicated and can be expensive. Also people that has you real phone number cannot contact you on Signal, so you have to have two accounts, one with your real number to chat with your contacts and another one with the fake one to share with strangers that you don't trust, and as far as I know the Signal app doesn't support two account (yes on Android there are ways to have two instances of the app, on iOS you c…
I’m interested in applying to and working at Signal. But is there a chance I would get put on a list of some sort making my life more difficult by the government?
I have consulted for the Signal Foundation in the past. None of the employees or consultants I worked with indicated that they'd had any problems.
Around 2010 timeframe, I hosted the RedPhone server backend on some spare colo hardware I owned. RedPhone, along with TextSecure, were the predecessors to Signal Messenger.
I have never had any (signal related) issues with the government.
Not looking forward to this... I use bots and I bet this will make them stop working at some inconvenient time. I wish I could put up collateral, say stablecoin in a smart contract, where Signal can ban my account and keep the money if I abuse, but otherwise do not break my automation.