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Can I add the amount of required permissions to the conspiracy theory? For a privacy-oriented app, requiring access to EVERYTHING is what has kept me away so fa
by probably_wrong 9y ago
Can I add the amount of required permissions to the conspiracy theory? For a privacy-oriented app, requiring access to EVERYTHING is what has kept me away so far.
(Or maybe there's a "Signal Lite" I'm not aware of?)
- StavrosK 9y agoCan't you just deny the permissions?
- nucleardog 9y agoRight from the get go, if you deny it access to SMS it forces you to wait 2 minutes (no way to skip), then only gives you the option to receive a phone call with a code to enter. Why not work like every other app and allow me to just enter the code from the SMS I received? As someone whose primary motivation had little to do with "hiding my conversations" and much more to do with "not having my entire address book, unrelated SMS history, and identity sucked up and sent to some company I don't trust", Signal just wasn't a great onboarding process at all. In the time I spent waiting to see what happened when the SMS timed out, I'd already installed Telegram and gotten setup. And if I remember correctly, even once I went through the phonecall process Signal was basically non-functional without access to my contacts. So Telegram it's been - shitty crypto and all. Though I'm open to other recommendations.
- micheljones 9y agoThank you for that addition. I do not use Signal myself so I was talking from an observer perspective.
- qengho 9y agoExactly. Signal is #privacyfail because is requires access to contacts. Wire is better.